The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit. — James Tate Copy Share Image
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, and by the way, who are not all that enamored… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. — Morley Baer Copy Share Image
I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's not easy, being the best at what he does but still having the humility and desire to be close to those… — Javier Mascherano Copy Share Image
It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. — Keri Arthur Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to… — Pankaj Patel Copy Share Image
Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young. — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary. — Dewitt Jones Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light… — Miep Gies Copy Share Image
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and… — Emily Rodda Copy Share Image
Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a… — Karen Tayleur Copy Share Image
All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been committed already. You cannot find a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform… — John Searle Copy Share Image
There's not too much opportunity to do that in ordinary life... there's not too much call for hatchet throwers. — Ted Cassidy Copy Share Image
I started as a community organizer. Every one of my campaigns was premised on getting new people involved. And if there's a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
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