Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
“If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.” — Tommy Newberry Copy Share Image
Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the… — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather… — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation. — Niels Bohr 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 had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Giving my life to you may mean leading a very ordinary life or it may mean leading an extraordinary life. It may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
