Cubic Curve

Famous quotes containing the words cubic and/or curve:

    “One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “The years-heired feature that can
    In curve and voice and eye
    Despise the human span
    Of durance—that is I;
    The eternal thing in man,
    That heeds no call to die.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)