Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in… — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens.… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm,… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
