Ordinary Quotes

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

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

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences

Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light, but a transcendental light.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics.

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling.

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

Live a life less ordinary.

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

...just being ordinary in and of itself is and expression of divinity; the truth of one's real self can be discovered through the pathway of everyday life.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.