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.
The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere.
The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.
That which is ordinary, is the most beautiful rare treasure you will thirst to find in the artificial world.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
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