Quotes of: Ordinary-man Keyword

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

Henry Mintzberg

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Down and Out in Paris and London

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Philip K. Dick

And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.

Patrick Macnee

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

Peter Senge

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

Philip Yancey

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Stieg Larsson

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

Susan Orlean

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

Sonia Sotomayor

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.

Tracy Kidder

I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

Kate Winslet

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

Marc Andreessen

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

Melissa Bank

Joy is found in the simple and ordinary things of life: the smile of a newborn baby, the kiss from a sweet new puppy, and the warm sunshine on a spring day.

Marie Cornelio

An ordinary place turns into an extraordinary place when visited by a good music! Earthly place becomes celestial!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Michel de Montaigne

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Robert Anton Wilson

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

Marian Seldes