Transfer Function Fall

Famous quotes containing the words transfer, function and/or fall:

“I have proceeded ... to prevent the lapse from ... the point of blending between wakefulness and sleep.... Not ... that I can render the point more than a point—but that I can startle myself ... into wakefulness—and thus transfer the point ... into the realm of Memory—convey its impressions,... to a situation where ... I can survey them with the eye of analysis.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)

“I fellowed sleep who kissed me in the brain,
Let fall the tear of time; the sleeper’s eye,
Shifting to light, turned on me like a moon.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)