Base Form Ends

Famous quotes containing the words base, form and/or ends:

    “What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.”
    —Muriel Beadle (b. 1915)

    “For women who do not love us, as for the “disappeared”, knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “Who makes ends meet, who’s taking the knock,
    Government tariffs, wages, price of stock.
    Smoke hangs under the light.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)