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
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
“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
“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
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
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
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when… — J. Cornell Michel Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they… — George Combe Copy Share Image
There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some… — Maurice Wilkes 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
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.… — Stephen Fry 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
The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche 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
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
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports,… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
When we speak of ordinary unqualified knowledge, my thought is that we are implicitly relativizing to the standards imposed by our evolution-derived… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.… — Joo Won Copy Share Image
Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness.… — William Martin Copy Share Image
Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image