When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
Before two human beings come in close physical contact, their auras have mingled; that is the reason why we 'feel the presence… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional,… — Shirley Williams Copy Share Image
I was an ordinary boy at school, a young man. In fact, what did the headmaster once say? "You're constantly challenging those… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We could have saved Wall Street without putting our future in jeopardy. I predicted that there would be all-around consequences - in… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Credit expansion and money printing hasn't filtered much to ordinary people. It's boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from… — John Jay Hooker 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
The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying… — K. Patricia Cross Copy Share Image
Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ...… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations… I… — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer… — Geoffrey Barraclough Copy Share Image
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach… — Dee Snider Copy Share Image
If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't… — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
