Ordinary Quotes

It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.

Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

Even though I found you on an ordinary day, it felt like I found a precious pearl in an oyster when I deep dived into the sea. Baby, you are really that precious to me.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of course." he said though he had no idea what hairspray was.

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.

When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution.

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun. And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven't done it for 20 years.

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.