Ordinary Quotes

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.

I just found that the knowledge of ordinary Americans about Iran is very small - which is totally expected.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.

Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

Because,” he said quietly as she stood up, “until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden.” Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. “What is it now?” “Heaven.

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

I always say that No Ordinary Family was the show that should've been.

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

Extraordinary potential exists in all of us. With the right environment, resources, skills and knowledge, 'ordinary' people can produce extraordinary results.

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.