Quotes of: Ordinary-man Keyword

In an ordinary suit and tie, I'd look like a little macho. I'd be ridiculous.

Azzedine Alaia

When you drop thinking that you are ordinary, you open up to potential to be an extraordinary.

Vishwas Chavan

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

William Zinsser

If the dog leads the man, the man is blind. If the man leads the dog, the man is married.

Chinese

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was ...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Oddball: This engine's been modified by our mechanical genius here, Moriarty. Right? Moriarty: Whatever you say, babe. [giggles] Oddball: These engines are the fastest in any tanks in the European Theater of Operations, forwards or backwards. You see...

Kelly's Heroes

A young man idle, an old man needy.

English

The poor man and the rich man do not play together.

Ghanaian

Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.

Fugitive Pieces

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.

Blue Nights

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

In the age of the smart machine

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

How Green Was My Valley

The road less traveled continues to beckon me onward, towards a journey of transformation and engagement.

Radically Ordinary

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

The Sense of an Ending

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

The Sufis

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Ordinary People

People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.

Promises to Keep

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Pensées

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy.

David Cassidy

Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.

Nicholas Sparks

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Oswald Chambers