Ordinary Quotes · Page 135

Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after…

— Edgar Snow

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why…

— Philip Zimbardo

“In extraordinary times, the ordinary takes on a glow and wonder all of its own”

— Mike A. Lancaster

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

— Seth

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and…

— Anonymous

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

— Terry Eagleton

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

— Jean Kerr

If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.

— Henry Blackaby

I believe that earning your living doing something you enjoy is one of the very best ways to nourish yourself. But even…

— Nathaniel Branden

Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life. If…

— Kenny Scharf

[I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love…

— Katherine Dunn

Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but…

— Eric Hoffer

That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and…

— Ted Hughes

“When we overlook them, life can start to feel like a series of disjointed highlights rather than a cloth spun with continuous…

— Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

— Joyce Maynard

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

— Phil Cousineau

Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit.

— Tommy Barnett

Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself…

— Ann Leckie

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the…

— Kenzo Tange

It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed…

— Peter Greenaway

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of…

— Piet Mondrian

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

— Anonymous

Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us…

— John Maynard Keynes

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

— Philip Kapleau

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts,…

— John Marshall