Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest… — Zola Budd Copy Share Image
Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals. — Severino Antinori Copy Share Image
What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given — Brad Brown Copy Share Image
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One… — Thrangu Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters. — Dhanush Copy Share Image
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
