When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I don't like playing to guitar players, actually. I'd rather just play to ordinary people. — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive;… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more… — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results. — Danny White Copy Share Image
“Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
If you have someone that you think is The One, don't just sort of think in your ordinary mind, 'Okay, let's pick… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance... — Nichiren Copy Share Image
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
