Ordinary Quotes

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Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.… — Peter Straub
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren
Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through… — Darcy O'Brien
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere,… — Saul Bellow
There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting… — Milan Kundera
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact… — Garry Kasparov
"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before,… — Sam Abell
As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer… — Peter Singer
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak… — Werner Heisenberg
I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We… — Vladimir Putin
Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it… — Rajneesh
Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary. — Samuel Mockbee
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich… — Unknown Author
The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves. — Torbjorn Tannsjo
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority… — Conrad Black
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life… — Joanna Macy
I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up. — Nigel Lawson
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a… — John Ensign
We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American… — Barack Obama
Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the… — Caryll Houselander
To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday… — Pope Benedict XVI
Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to… — Josemaria Escriva
You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities… — Josemaria Escriva
Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had… — Carl Sagan
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well. — Jim Rohn

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