Fixed Base

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or base:

“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“The base emotions Plato banned
have left a radio-active and not radiant land.”
—Libby Houston (b. 1941)