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)

    “No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.”
    —Frank Pittman (20th century)

    “There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
    now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is
    all.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)