Ordinary Quotes - Page 23

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

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 ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master

No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

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 had even taken over someone else's life.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

Ordinary won't change the world.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars