A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch — James Howe Copy Share Image
To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched,… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel… — John Updike Copy Share Image
As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
. . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I move in a society so devoid of ordinary reality that I am continually stopping to teach good sense, to give support,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed) — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you… — Boris Yeltsin 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
In an ordinary suit and tie, I'd look like a little macho. I'd be ridiculous. — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an… — Simon Weston Copy Share Image
You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Some banks won’t make it. Other banks are going to make sure that we strengthen. All deposits are going to be safe… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't… — Hans Fallada Copy Share Image
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of… — Hannah Arendt 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
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image