Abstract Variable

Famous quotes containing the words abstract and/or variable:

“Somebody once said that I am incapable of drawing a man, but that I draw abstract things like despair, disillusion, despondency, sorrow, lapse of memory, exile, and that these things are sometimes in a shape that might be called Man or Woman.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)

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