Quotes about ordinary
ordinary fiction use
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 I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things. Rian Johnson
ordinary-extraordinary quiet human-nature
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. Robert Toombs
ordinary looks top-hats
It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course. Tove Jansson
ordinary ordinariness
Ordinary is a word that has no meaning. Robin Morgan
ordinary strange strangeness
It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary. Veronica Roth
ordinary
I'll probably be working. To the ordinary run-of-the-mill person, I think this will just be another day.
ordinary take-a-chance chance
For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary. Narciso Rodriguez
ordinary run
Darius is stocky. And he's not an ordinary fullback because he can run right by you.
ordinary poison quiet
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles. Nathaniel Hawthorne
ordinary-extraordinary ordinary-things extraordinary-love
Do ordinary things with extraordinary love. Mother Teresa
ordinary-things ordinary taxi
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more. Marc Newson
ordinary miraculous
The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous. Simon Armitage
ordinary said rabbi
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so! Lionel Blue
ordinary injustice
but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence. Leo Tolstoy
ordinary income mutual-fund
Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts. Ralph Goodale
ordinary looks gains
The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working Americans. And now it looks as if it never will. Paul Krugman
ordinary busy gorgeous
It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous. Katharine Hepburn
ordinary belief extraordinary
What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary. Jody Williams
ordinary ordinary-life
There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92) Lucy Maud Montgomery
ordinary sad-truth corrections
And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? Jonathan Franzen
ordinary may normal
Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal. Haruki Murakami
ordinary literature missions
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ordinary genius can-do
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. Henry Ward Beecher
ordinary ridiculous buried
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person. Alan Moore
ordinary-things ordinary excited
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. David Hockney
ordinary
Live a life less ordinary. Benedict Cumberbatch
ordinary half waste
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. Beatrice Webb
ordinary different sound
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. Dee Snider
ordinary genius done
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. Benjamin Haydon
ordinary
Every day is ordinary, until it isn't. Bernard Cornwell
ordinary god-love divine
The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
ordinary earth violence
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. Charles Lyell
ordinary stories littles
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. Charles Kuralt