A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch — James Howe Copy Share Image
To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched,… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel… — John Updike Copy Share Image
As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
. . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I move in a society so devoid of ordinary reality that I am continually stopping to teach good sense, to give support,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed) — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional,… — Shirley Williams Copy Share Image
In an ordinary suit and tie, I'd look like a little macho. I'd be ridiculous. — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience… — Joseph Campbell 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