As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant,… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where… — Willie Pastrano Copy Share Image
Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it. — Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Copy Share Image
George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is… — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which… — Michel Houellebecq 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
Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals. — Severino Antinori Copy Share Image
What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given — Brad Brown Copy Share Image
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters. — Dhanush Copy Share Image
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
