Variable Universal Life

Famous quotes containing the words variable, universal and/or life:

    “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)

    “They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.”
    —Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

    “So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,—both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT—as his RESISTANCE.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)