Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton... — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
We are ordinary people who are just trying to get by and make a living. — Nikitin Dheer Copy Share Image
I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather… — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey… — Andrew van der Bijl Copy Share Image
I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an… — Simon Weston Copy Share Image
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way. — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
My fear is that when you become an expert in anything then the expectation somehow makes you ordinary, in a way, because… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is… — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
If I were inclined to worry that the United States was veering in a dangerously theocratic direction, here's a short list of… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus,… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Broken Hearts and Styrofoam and Empty Doubles Cups I guess I'm ORDINARY!! — Ricky Dillon Copy Share Image
I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most. — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image