Ordinary Degrees

Famous quotes containing the words ordinary and/or degrees:

    “And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)