Uncertain Quantity

Famous quotes containing the words uncertain and/or quantity:

“The light, the turf, and all that grows now urge
The uncertain dweller blinking to emerge....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)