Gradually Varied Function

Famous quotes containing the words gradually, varied and/or function:

“The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
Younger and pinker every year,
Bloom gradually out of reach.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

“Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur’s work.”
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)

“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)