Form Follows Function Quotes

#1. Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#2. The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

Harlan Ellison

#3. Form follows function straight to hell.

Alan Cooper

#4. 'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#5. My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Oscar Niemeyer

#6. Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

Bill Watterson

#7. When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was,
form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it,
because there is no effort to spare for error.
Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.

Paul Graham

#8. Form follows finances instead of function.

Ira Flatow

#9. Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.

Sidney Hook

#10. How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.

Francis Frangipane

#11. If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Nat King Cole

#12. Of baking pans so that we can make individual brownies with

Paula Danziger

#13. Ideology is masturbation, a jerk-off afforded to those few privileged with time on their hands and no wolves at the door.

Rick Remender

#14. Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.

Jess Walter

#15. The form follows the function.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

#16. So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

R.L. Stine

#17. I love yous are exhanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.

Tanya Masse

#18. There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.

Alan Dershowitz

#19. Form ever follows function.

Louis Sullivan

#20. The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#21. Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame.

Sia Furler

#22. Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.

Ezra Pound

#23. If you rank the top 50 one-day moves in the S&P 500, a fair number of those happened within the last five or 10 years. That tells you that we're in a different, riskier market now.

Andrew Lo

#24. [I]ntrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.

Erik Adigard

#25. It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

Christine Ebersole

#26. What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

Jenny Offill