Ordinary Things Quotes

83 Ordinary Things quotes by 72 unique authors

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more. — Marc Newson
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. — Thomas Merton
The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in… — Oswald Chambers
Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things! — Jim Valvano
The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest… — Michel de Montaigne
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. — Viola Davis
Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity. — Emily Carr
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
What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary… — Garrison Keillor
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. — Eric Rohmer
The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you… — Mia Love
The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning… — Allan Kaprow
By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time… — Lynda Barry
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies… — Rian Johnson
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a… — Karen Thompson Walker
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — John W. Gardner
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. — David Hockney
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. — Khaled Hosseini
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary… — Daryn Kagan
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really… — Terry Pratchett
It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the… — Oswald Chambers
May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for… — James E. Faust

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