Ordinary Degrees

Famous quotes containing the words ordinary and/or degrees:

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

“So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,—both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT—as his RESISTANCE.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)