If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What makes an Alexander Payne movie an 'Alexander Payne movie' is that he knows how to make the 'mundane' or the 'average… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
