Ordinary Quotes

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The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit. — James Tate
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the… — Clive James
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. — Kenzo Tange
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager… — Harry Houdini
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which… — E. Stanley Jones
I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that… — Philip Yancey
It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says 'nucular' and 'misunderestimate'… — Noam Chomsky
At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it. — Mao Zedong
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality. — D. H. Lawrence
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of… — Balthus
God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people — Howard G. Hendricks
When I was single I used to list the qualities that I would need in my first love. Then one ordinary day in my university,… — Unknown Author
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with… — Lawrence Durrell
We have two main instruments: the mind and the heart. The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind consciously enjoys the… — Sri Chinmoy
Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage. — Unknown Author
I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But… — Harriet Quimby
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches… — Marianne Williamson
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God. — Thomas Merton
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. — William Hazlitt
Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents. — Jean Kerr
Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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