Ordinary Quotes - Page 27

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or retire... Now that they've gone, the high drama's over. What remains is ordinary human life.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

The most successful people on the planet have failed more than ordinary ones.

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.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium. To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their lives resembles a little brook, whereas with the genius it is more like a mighty river into which all the little rivulets flow from afar; that is to say, the universal comprehension of genius vibrates to no experience in which all the individual moments have not been gathered up and stored.