Famous quotes containing the words large and/or variety:
“For a large class of casesthough not for allin which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951)
“His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Van gripped with splayed hands the brow of gravity, and moved to and fro, veering and sidestepping, opening his mouth the wrong way, and blinking in the odd bilboquet fashion peculiar to eyelids in his abnormal position. Even more extraordinary than the variety and velocity of the movements he made in imitation of animal hind legs was the effortlessness of his stance.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)