Ordinary Quotes

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I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary. — Michelle Magorian
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting… — Sharon Olds
The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as… — Max Weber
What is creativity? Having spent my life in one creative endeavor after another, I can tell you it's not something magical or mystical. It's something… — Dewitt Jones
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie. — Ellsworth Huntington
Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten… — Neal A. Maxwell
On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely… — Charles Lindbergh
For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to… — Elizabeth von Arnim
Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from… — Michael Medved
Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children see… — Fredric Wertham
I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In… — Anne Frank
The population at large is neither 'ordinary' or 'normal'. They seem to be bound together by a collective ignorance of themselves and what they are.… — Dennis Nilsen
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking… — Marvin Olasky
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics. — C. Everett Koop
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what… — Graham Norton
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. — Larry Wall
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country. — Hector Hugh Munro
If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do… — Julia Cameron
Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors… — Isobelle Carmody
I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can… — Kristin Hannah
When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,… — Henry David Thoreau
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. — Muhammad Ali
I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey… — Phil Cousineau
Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is… — Eleanor Catton
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot… — E L Doctorow

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