Famous quotes containing the words ordinary english, ordinary and/or english:
“The ordinary manwe have to face it: it is every bit as true of the ordinary Englishman as of the ordinary Americanis an Anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesnt want to be governed.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving ones ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of ones life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into ones real life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“Ive sometimes thought ... that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.”
—J.M. (James Matthew)