Ordinary

Famous quotes containing the word ordinary:

“The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)

“It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)