It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd — Robin Crow Copy Share Image
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical. — Trent Parke Copy Share Image
“Those who are looking for some extraordinary people must know that all the extraordinariness is hidden in the ordinary people!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Simple things are found in ordinariness - but extraordinariness lives inside things that are loved.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness. — Ursus Wehrli Copy Share Image
“Simple things are found in ordinariness - but extraordinary things live inside love.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of… — George Will Copy Share Image
The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
“It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny." Cath circled her spoon hand in front of her face, accidentally flicking… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Tea with milk and sugar is so ordinary. We want to see a change, feel the necessity to bring colours other than… — Anuradha Bhattacharyya Copy Share Image
“Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions when he happened to… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
“The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when… — J. Cornell Michel Copy Share Image
What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures…… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
The theme of the collection this time is MONSTER. It's not about the typical Monster you find in sci-fi and video games.… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ordinary,' said the tyger. 'Everything is extraordinary. In all of infinity and eternity, that flower exists only in this world;… — S.F. Said Copy Share Image
“She was just ordinary. From her horse's-mane hair to her sturdy, practical feet, she'd never turned men's heads. Oh, she wasn't ill-favored-… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appearance, fairly well educated, not… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday… — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
