Ordinary Quotes - Page 31

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given

An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.

I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

I am excited by this collaboration: this is the first time H&M involves a Fashion Director in a special project. This is the sign of an important evolution in fashion, and I am both thrilled and humbled to be the one chosen to lead it. I wanted to create precious accessories that are impossible to find. As a stylist I know accessorization is essential: it is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning an ordinary day into a fantastic fashion day

Ordinary Women was shot on a soundstage with a professional crew and a professional animation studio creating everything.

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they are prosperous if the boom starts, and that deficits and indebtedness are merely signs of how prosperous they are.

A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.

In order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gānja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause stimulation of the physical brain. But these have reactions. And to stimulate the brain thus is not the proper process.

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.