Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
It was Benny P Nayarambalam who first cast me in a character which made people laugh, in 'Marykkundoru Kunjadu.' Then 'Seniors' happened,… — Biju Menon Copy Share Image
For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain,… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle… — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking… — Herodotus 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
When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
We both [with Donald Trump] share a desire to ensure that governments are working for everyone and particularly that governments are working… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are,… — Alain de Botton 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
To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after… — Vijay Mallya Copy Share Image
Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control… — James Grant 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
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