All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too.
In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.
Dr. Berger: A little advice about feelings kiddo; don't expect it always to tickle.
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.
I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
