Quotes of: Ordinary-guy Keyword

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Russell Banks

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?

Tell Me When I'm Dead

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die

The Vast Fields of Ordinary

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

Neal A. Maxwell

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

Peter Deunov

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

William Banting

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It’s about recognizing that the great movements and moments in history laid on the backs of ordinary people who simply chose to do extraordinary things.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

Julianne Moore

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you ...

John Updike

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary

Anuj Somany

Clay sat up, swinging a leg over Jeff's body to straddle him. He grabbed both wrists and pinned them by Jeff's head, bending closer until they shared a breath between parted lips. "There's something about you, Jeff. Always something." "I'm just an or...

Extreme Bull

I thought you guys could detect witches." Jonathan muttered as soon as he got over his shock at seeing two people materialise in front of him. The wiccan sat on the floor, his shoulder being strapped with a makeshift bandage, by the ever-practical Ia...

The Shadow Reigns

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

Larry David