Famous quotes containing the words base and/or words:
“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)
“Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called ‘vague.’”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)