Function

Famous quotes containing the word function:

“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information—hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)