Quotes of: Ordinary-guy Keyword

The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary.

Vittorio Grigolo

Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.

David A. Bednar

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

Jennifer Aniston

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

J. L. Austin

I'm somebody who explores extraordinary possibilities, not ordinary ones.

Graham Hancock

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

Donna Lynn Hope

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

George Orwell

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

George Henry Lewes

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

Ursus Wehrli

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Eve Ensler

She blinked. "Hmm? Oh, don't care. What did Anubis look like to you?" "What did... he looked like a guy. So?" "A good-looking guy, or a slobbering dog-headed guy?" "I guess... Not the dog-headed guy." "I knew it!" Sadie pointed at me as if she'd won ...

The Red Pyramid

Zeus: Now, where you goin'? Dexter: School. Zeus: Why? Raymond: To get educated. Zeus: *Why*? Dexter: So we can go to college. Zeus: And why is that important? Dexter: To get es-pect. Zeus: RE-spect. Now, who's the bad guys? Dexter: Guys who sell dru...

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day of Laurie's confinement, that actually one good scare like that could probably mark a child for life, and my husband pointed out that kids frequently ...

Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

A relationship between two people is made up, for the most part, of invisible things: memories, shared experiences, hopes and fears. When one person disappears, the other is left alone, as if holding a string with no kite. Memories can do a lot to su...

Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat

Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods,...

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth

democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by making power responsive to their hopes and needs. What is at stake in democratic politics is whether ordinary men an...

Sheldon S. Wolin

Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

Robert Atkins

I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy.

Roy Blunt