Quotes of: Ordinary-men Keyword

The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Trac...

Carlo Ratti

Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture.

Charles H. Spurgeon

'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective....

Jennifer Chiaverini

Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

Joyce Carol Oates

The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no...

Donna Lynn Hope

The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up - just level. It doesn't take some special dimension to be president.

Jack Germond

As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evo...

James Gleick

Jareth: I've brought you a gift. Sarah: What is it? Jareth: It's a crystal. Nothing more. But if you turn it this way and look into it, it will show you your dreams. But this is not a gift for an ordinary girl who takes care of a screaming baby.

Labyrinth

Zakir Khan: [to TV cameras] The question over here is, not why he's trying to meet the President. The question is, what's wrong in an ordinary citizen wanting to meet the President of his country? Or is it just wrong for a Muslim man to even try?

My Name Is Khan

Conrad "Con" Jarrett: [about Karen's suicide] I feel bad about this! I feel really, really bad about this! Just let me feel bad about this! Dr. Berger: Okay. I feel bad about it, too.

Ordinary People

Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it’s from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the...

Anuj Somany

She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simp...

Tess Thompson

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in ...

Ben Stein

Merry Men: [singing] Ta da, da da da da - whoo! Monsieur Hood: I steal from the rich and give to the needy... Merry Man: He takes a wee percentage... Monsieur Hood: But I'm not greedy - I rescue pretty damsels, man I'm good! Merry Men: What a guy, ha...

Shrek

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon

Daughter of the Blood

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

A Farewell to Arms

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

Fight Club

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

Goddess of Light

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

The Golden Notebook

If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them?

Grim