I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it.… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful… — Zicheng Hong 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
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
If somebody actually just walks up to you and says, ‘Hey, do you want to do something out of the ordinary?’ there… — Oliver Herring Copy Share Image
I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest… — Zola Budd Copy Share Image
In my work, I really try to look at ordinary things quite closely to see if there isn't a little bit of… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I think main storylines are what always intrigued me, with those that were the relationships between the characters against whatever backdrop, whether… — John Noble Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm a very, very modest person and with limited abilities. I do have the wish to succeed in anything I undertake, and… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I think some people are not interesting to themselves. They're the sad, resigned folk. When people call themselves ordinary - "I'm just… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Everything is fine, everything is just fine. It's ordinary. The problem is I don't want ordinary I want..." "Magic?" "Yeah, you know… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
“I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've… — David Hockney Copy Share Image