“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
“Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.”
Walter Cronkite
“I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”
William Blake
“To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.”
T.S. Eliot
“I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.”
William McKinley
“In this case, I believe the report came back and it was skunk-transmitted,”
Jason Johnson
“There is no part of the UK that remains unaffected by HIV or other sexually transmitted infections.”
Barry Evans
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