We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations. — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process. — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe Tunisia and Egypt should look to Turkey and see what not to do. Turkey seems to be a secular and… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference. — Charles Atlas Copy Share Image
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things… — Carlos Beltran Copy Share Image
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day. — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs;… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
