I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“ordinary friendships simply do not affect the common good in structured ways that could justify legal regulation.” — Sherif Girgis Copy Share Image
I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest… — Zola Budd Copy Share Image
In my work, I really try to look at ordinary things quite closely to see if there isn't a little bit of… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I think main storylines are what always intrigued me, with those that were the relationships between the characters against whatever backdrop, whether… — John Noble Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father… — Mia Love Copy Share Image
The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little… — Gina Carano Copy Share Image
Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the… — William James Copy Share Image
Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by… — Laozi 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
The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. — Wayne Thiebaud 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
If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Hitler was without a doubt exceptional in his criminal deeds. Yet in many respects, he was not at all out of the… — Volker Ullrich Copy Share Image
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
“Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Copy Share Image
I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“As Gideon always said in the opening of his act, There is always something extraordinary in the ordinary” — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
