Variable Geometry Wings

Famous quotes containing the words variable, geometry and/or wings:

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

    “I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “who lives on, lives on
    like the wings of an Atlantic seagull.
    Though he has stopped flying,
    the wings go on flapping
    despite it all,
    despite it all.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)