Ordinary Quotes

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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the… — C. K. Williams
Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself. — Edmund Hillary
I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and… — Jonathan Stroud
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina… — Andy Warhol
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things… — Charles Bukowski
Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, — George Herbert
The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in… — Mary Kay Ash
Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving. — Yohji Yamamoto
A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart… — Unknown Author
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important -… — Idries Shah
I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I… — David Lindsay-Abaire
The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong. — Francis Schaeffer
Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer’s mind, how he… — Richard Ramirez
Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country. — Khem Veasna
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are… — Barry Goldwater
A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness. — Pete Gill
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy… — Henry Mintzberg
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary.… — William Cronon
Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth.… — Duane Michals
[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion. — Orson Scott Card
Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit.… — Camille Paglia

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