Variable Length Fields

Famous quotes containing the words variable, length and/or fields:

    “Walked forth to ease my pain
    Along the shore of silver streaming Thames,
    Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,
    Was painted all with variable flowers,”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “Punishment followed on a grand scale. For ten days, an unconscionable length of time, my father blessed the palms of his child’s outstretched, four-year-old hands with a sharp switch. Seven strokes a day on each hand; that makes one hundred forty strokes and then some. This put an end to the child’s innocence.”
    —Christoph Meckel (20th century)

    “I don’t know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.”
    —Otis Criblecoblis, U.S. screenwriter. W.C. Fields (W.C. Fields)