Ordinary Quotes - Page 33

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

My life has been so fortunate. I have had most extraordinary good fortune in my life. I sort of put it into three categories, the three major stepping stones. One being London Hippodrome theater stage debut when I was 12, when it started my career. The second being going to Broadway. And the third going to Hollywood. Each one of those happened under the most extraordinary circumstances.

I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer.

Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.

I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'.

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

Your kid's ordinary. And so are you.

If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.

The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.