what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up…

To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is…

— Hugh Laurie

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

— Boris Pasternak

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe

— Bob Goff

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

— Jacques Audiard

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background…

— Robert Sheckley

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

— Marilynne Robinson

“What makes the marvellous is its peculiar way of being ordinary; what makes the ordinary is its peculiar way of being marvellous.”

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Eudora Welty

“People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.”

— Derek Thompson

To me I just thought of the tough guys as like these silly Muppets. But getting through life, the heroic thing is if you…

— Kelly Reichardt

“For me, art makes the ordinary magical.”

— Nikki Rowe

“Don't do the things just for the sake of it. Do something extra. It makes ordinary things, extraordinary.”

— Chandan Sharma

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

— Christopher Reeve

“Admitting we're not heroic is when we're the most heroic of all”

— John Dorian- scrubs

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel