I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics]… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertarians are far more interested in an ideal world than in the… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful! — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists… — William Daniel Phillips 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
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science,… — George Henry Lewes 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
There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you… — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it. — Robert Ley Copy Share Image
I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the… — Joseph Lelyveld Copy Share Image
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment. — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president… — Aslan Maskhadov Copy Share Image
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“Amid all the bangs and the drama and the grand passions, it's kindness and just ordinary goodness that stands out in the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image