Famous quotes containing the words base, form and/or ends:
“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“A form upon the quilted
overcast, gleam, Sacrè
Coeur, saltlick
to the mind’s
desire”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest—for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)