Quotes of: Ordinary Keyword

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

George Orwell

I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

Eddi Reader

The secrets that lead to extraordinary success, won't make sense to ordinary minds

Constance Chuks Friday

A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...

C.J. Heck

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

Chuck Jones

I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

Bernie Mac

Today is not any ordinary day, it's the day all your dreams may come true.

Buky Ojelabi

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.

Chris Van Allsburg

I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.

Jennifer Sky

There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.

Sophie Marceau

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren Bennis

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Michael Crichton

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

C. Wright Mills

Angela Hayes: I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.

American Beauty

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

Al Alvarez

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Aleister Crowley

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

Aslan Maskhadov

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal ...

Art as a Social System

While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am n...

Interpreter of Maladies

There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the c...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical