Large Relative Error

Famous quotes containing the words large, relative and/or error:

    “If the hero is not a person, the emblem
    Of him, even if Xenophon, seems
    To stand taller than a person stands, has
    A wider brow, large and less human
    Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body
    Of a primitive.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “She went in there to muse on being rid
    Of relative beneath the coffin lid.
    No one was by. She stuck her tongue out; slid.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “It is the very error of the moon,
    She comes more near the earth than she was wont,
    And makes men mad.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)