Ordinary Quotes

2227 Ordinary quotes by 1506 unique authors

I'm not an ordinary prisoner. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy… — Don DeLillo
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds. — Lurlene McDaniel
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I… — Margaret Mahy
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why… — Margaret Mahy
If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little… — Todd McFarlane
My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't… — Vijay Mallya
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered. — Ivor Novello
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes… — Carl Jung
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer,… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything… — James Laughlin
This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary. — Brian Perkins
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. — Eric Rohmer
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the… — Francis Spufford
Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of… — Bernie Sanders
Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked… — Ken Salazar
Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning… — Michael Card
One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most… — Alan Loy McGinnis
Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the… — Frederick Lenz
It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it… — Martin Amis
I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman. — Jennifer Sky
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. — Norman Spinrad
I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm… — Rachael Taylor
There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like… — Norman Wisdom

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