Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary.

Beatrice Webb

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Dee Snider

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Benjamin Haydon

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Bernard Cornwell

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

Charles Lyell

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

Alanis Morissette

That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.

Antonin Artaud

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

Diablo Cody

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.

Diablo Cody

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.

L. Ron Hubbard

You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.

Carolyn McCarthy

I'm considered a new Democrat, which would be considered moderate.

C. S. Lewis

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...

Alan Thicke

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.

Charlotte Bronte

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.

Deb Caletti

Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.

Kurt Vonnegut

No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.

Mark Cuban

Sometimes the best properties aren't necessarily the biggest properties.

Bill Murray

I act like a jerk sometimes.

Chi McBride

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes

Chance The Rapper

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme

Beth Moore

Sometimes you have to hold tight to what God has already said because you can get so clouded over emotionally that you can no longer rely on what feels right or wrong.