Ordinary Quotes

. . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.

I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.

They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt.

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.

A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.

Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.

I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

ordinary is the door for extraordinary.

In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating.

When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

People want you to be ordinary.

Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

The most ordinary words have amazing life in them.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

Everything ordinary has the potential to be extraordinary.

The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

Many ordinary Americans make themselves feel better by saying what the famous daytime TV idiot says. But it leads to absolute calamity and disaster, as we are seeing.

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.