American Numbering Plan

Famous quotes containing the words american, numbering and/or plan:

    “It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The task he undertakes
    Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “some little plan or chart,
    Some fragment from his dream of human life,
    Shaped by himself with newly-learned art;”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)