I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures.… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why we started the Green Belt Movement is to work with these ordinary peasant farmers so as to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
This was the feeling that Ms. Hempel couldn't shake: a conviction that she spent her days among people at the age when… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white folks for two contradictory reasons. First, he constantly proclaims his belief in… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing I've found that's really helpful in our relationship is that she's [Anna Faris] very normal. And I don't mean ordinary… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting. — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter.… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for… — Catherine Doherty 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
I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman. — Jennifer Sky Copy Share Image
The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I didn’t know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
![“One thing I've found that's really helpful in our relationship is that she's [Anna Faris] very normal. And I don't mean ordinary - I mean, she doesn't act like a big star or a comic icon or anything like that. She's really down-to-earth and sweet, and we do talk about comedy, about movies, about…” quote by Chris Pratt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/468/chris-pratt-7482_anna_one-thing-i-ve-found-that-s-really-helpf_2590130.jpg)
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