Ordinary Quotes
I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
One of the things that really fascinates me about movies is that they make seemingly ordinary moments be filled with some curiosity or some energy or some mystery.
Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.
We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.
Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.
When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.
It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.
When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.
These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.
Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the Kanes.
For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.
I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.
If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.
Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.
Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.
Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.