Hair/function

Famous quotes containing the words hair and/or function:

““You are old, father William,” the young man said,
“And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“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)