All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit. — James Tate Copy Share Image
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“the mundane can be quite satisfying. In fact, being ordinary in general is highly underrated.” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered. — Ivor Novello Copy Share Image
I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
However, one new theory says that dark matter may be ordinary matter in a parallel universe. If a galaxy is hovering above… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference… — Peter Thomas Bauer Copy Share Image
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange… — Tomoko Yamashita Copy Share Image
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share… — Robert E. Quinn Copy Share Image
He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to… — William James Copy Share Image
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
“You know what I am?" he says. "What?" "I'm an ordinary person." "Come on." "I know. Who isn't an ordinary person? How… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“We don't need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.” — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“The Ordinary is Extraordinary ..." my motto for life as a writer/Mom/woman” — Lisa Barr Copy Share Image
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can. — John Prine Copy Share Image
“What will be will be, so your determination is just extra-ordinary participant .” — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
“We all have the potential to become extraordinary... why be ordinary!” — Francois Holtz Copy Share Image
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image