Variable Length Record

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

    “There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

    “He thought he saw an Elephant,
    That practiced on a fife:
    He looked again, and found it was
    A letter from his wife.
    “At length I realize,” he said,
    “The bitterness of Life!””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one’s own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilised form of autobiography.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)