If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen—I may just miss my life. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so! — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss,… — August Kleinzahler Copy Share Image
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas.… — Haruki Murakami 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
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was an ordinary boy at school, a young man. In fact, what did the headmaster once say? "You're constantly challenging those… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
