Quotes of: Ordinary-guy Keyword

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Kenneth Koch

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

Marv Albert

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

Mike Huckabee

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

Roz Savage

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

For One More Day

I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

Rachel Joyce

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Tony Blair

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Desmond Tutu

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Giles Foden

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Alice Paul

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Honore de Balzac

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Walter Savage Landor

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.

Paul Gascoigne

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

Benigno Aquino III

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

Dick Gephardt

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Ian Anderson

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.

Sidney Poitier

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

Tove Lo

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound