The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party.… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green)” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary. — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person. — Veronique Vienne Copy Share Image
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life. — Martha Reeves Copy Share Image
“He had always been too English; by which he supposed he meant that he was ordinary.” — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
We could have saved Wall Street without putting our future in jeopardy. I predicted that there would be all-around consequences - in… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness. — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost. — Guy Browning Copy Share Image