The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage. — Enoch L. Johnson Copy Share Image
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature,… — Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps Copy Share Image
Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee. — Israel Albert Horowitz Copy Share Image
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it… — Stanley Spencer Copy Share Image
Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
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