Ordinary Quotes

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

Hitler was without a doubt exceptional in his criminal deeds. Yet in many respects, he was not at all out of the ordinary.

I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.

Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

As a stylist I know accessorization is essential: It is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning an ordinary day into a fantastic fashion day.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.

Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too!

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

Take new values: Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.

Be content with an ordinary life.

I hate ordinary people!

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.