Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was a huge fan of movies and acting. My mom was in the sort of community theater, and… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith.… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit. — James Tate Copy Share Image
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, and by the way, who are not all that enamored… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. — Morley Baer Copy Share Image
I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's not easy, being the best at what he does but still having the humility and desire to be close to those… — Javier Mascherano Copy Share Image
