Ordinary Quotes - Page 41

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

I was fascinated looking at John Galliano's couture. They're just extraordinary extravaganzas and I love it. I love looking at it because it's like going to a museum.

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

My fear is that when you become an expert in anything then the expectation somehow makes you ordinary, in a way, because you become the firm that does that, or you become the person that does that. You really need to change the form to make the discovery.

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt.

The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working Americans. And now it looks as if it never will.

In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.

Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

Carey Mulligan is completely self-possessed. She knows what she's doing, and again, quite like the big-hitters I was talking about, my job was just to feel and reflect back the amazing performance coming my way. If anything, I was slightly pathetically flying in her tailwind. She's an extraordinary actress.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.

They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

You know what, the jacket’s like the car.” "“Is this a riddle?” " , "“No,” Peabody said as Eve swiped the master.","“It’s an", "ordinary thing—well, special, but a jacket, right? And the car, it’s ordinary, it even looks it. But both of them have the special inside. Cop special especially, you know? He so gets you. That’s even better than a just-because present.”", "“You’re right. He does. And it is.” Inside, Eve paused another moment. “He’s worried about me.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.