Ordinary Quotes

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.

I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.

All truth is very ordinary.

Anytime you do something out of the ordinary, there will be skeptics. Everyone wants a reason why. That's fine. What's happened with me is just an accumulation of a lot of things.

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

jace's clothes had been clean,stylish,ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.

I am sorry," Will said. "No," Jem said... "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry.

My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

I think it's important to understand that ISIS's biggest enemy are ordinary Muslims. That's why they're fleeing.

There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.

It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.” Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.