Transfer Function Fall

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

“If it had not been for storytelling, the black family would not have survived. It was the responsibility of the Uncle Remus types to transfer philosophies, attitudes, values, and advice, by way of storytelling using creatures in the woods as symbols.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)

“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)

“Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)