Ordinary

Famous quotes containing the word ordinary:

“When the shrivelled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people—but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)