The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia. — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Copy Share Image
...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I like to set aggressive targets; without them, you will get ordinary performances. — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A learned man is not one who uses complicated and difficult words in spoken and written language, but one who uses words… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is… — William James Copy Share Image
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I just think it's useful for people to know that even if you are off the telly you're just an ordinary person… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise… — Ray Stedman Copy Share Image
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
