Famous quotes containing the words set and/or variable:
“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)