Take something ordinary and elevate it to something…

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

— Karen Robards

Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary…

— Antonio Guterres

“We search for the ordinary when we are surrounded by the extraordinary.”

— Daniel H. Wilson

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

— Ian Bogost

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

— Tahir Shah

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things.…

— David Bailey

“Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

— Tove Jansson

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

— Anonymous

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

— Roger von Oech

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

— Phillip Adams

I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed…

— Lawrence Lessig

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

— Robin Sharma

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -…

— Virginia Woolf

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

— Deepak Chopra