Ordinary Quotes · Page 65

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

— Harold Jeffreys

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and…

— Jim Rohn

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

— Edmund Wilson

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to…

— Woodrow Wilson

Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.

— Frank McCourt

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

— Deepak Chopra

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

— Plato

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think…

— Anonymous

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning…

— Deepak Chopra

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black,…

— Tyler Perry

Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost…

— Barbara Holland

Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments…

— Allan Boesak

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to…

— T. S. Eliot

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives,…

— Ann Bancroft

Doing things out of the ordinary - out of the box - like jumping out of airplanes and landing in cities that…

— Dhani Jones

A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in…

— William Monahan

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within…

— Aldous Huxley

Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools…

— Anonymous

There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One…

— Thrangu Rinpoche

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they…

— Jodi Picoult

There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may…

— Josiah Wedgwood

I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I…

— Thomas Merton

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked…

— Greta Garbo

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

— Veronique Vienne

He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.

— Amanda Hocking

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

— Phil Gramm

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

— Ransom Riggs

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

— Austin O'Malley

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

— Jasper Fforde

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make…

— Kevin Keegan

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

— Romola Garai

People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success…

— Jenny Shipley

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

— Warren Buffett

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of…

— Michael Frayn