Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or level:
“The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly—because if they don’t speak fast nobody will listen to them.”
—Michael Caine [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (b. 1933)
“[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)