Ordinary Quotes - Page 35

I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big investment for an artist. So unless you've got someone who wants to pay you while you're doing it or up front, it's kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you're the artist yourself.

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

Ordinary people can bring about change.

For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

Anything can happen in this world, for an ordinary girl

It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.