When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The thumb may look like an ordinary finger, truly it is a miraculous gift from God! If all the fingers were long… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage?… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things. — Veronique Vienne Copy Share Image
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Ordinary people in such positions - working at firms, companies, or chains - have the absolute right to have their voice in… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image