Famous quotes containing the words base and/or plates:
“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)
“Realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)