Ordinary

Famous quotes containing the word ordinary:

    “I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.”
    —Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)

    “These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing
    Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
    Who else would soar above the view of men,
    And keep us all in servile fearfulness.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhere ... and you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.”
    —Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)