Transference Quotes

We have seen the birth of geometry in Egypt, its transference to the Ionian Islands, thence to Lower Italy and to Athens. We have witnessed its growth in Greece from feeble childhood to vigorous manhood, and now we shall see it return to the land of its birth and there derive new vigour.

— p. 34 (The Greeks)

Tags: We, seen, birth, geometry, Egypt, Ionian, Islands, thence, Lower

...in the period from 1923 to 1948, known as the Bharata Natyam revival. Performers, critics, and promoters through Bharata Natyam to the urban proscenium stage, recontextualizing and renaming it. In doing so they crafted a genealogy in which Bharat Natyam came to represent ancient tradition and critical experimentation, nationalism, regional identities and the global transference forms outside of geographical and cultural boundaries.

— By Janet O'Shea in "At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage", p.4

Tags: period, known, Bharata, Natyam, revival, critics, promoters, urban, proscenium

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

arthur m. jolly

— Arthur M. Jolly, interview with Purple Pencil Adventures (2010)

Tags: Writing, nothing, less, thought, ability, send, ideas, world, beyond

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

henry george liddell

— P.29 (Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982))

Tags: think, sorrow, youth, manhood, equalled, intensity, duration, black, hopeless

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