Variable Length Record

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

    “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)

    “A needless Alexandrine ends the song,
    That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)