Ordinary Quotes - Page 43

An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!

If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.

In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous, ordinary French women who put their lives on the line to save others. It was really inspirational.

I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something beyond its mere ordinary meaning, while also retaining all the qualities of that ordinary meaning. In other words, it's a bear, but it's also suggesting something else, just by virtue of the attention to it. But it's not "symbolic" in that way we are taught to think about things in poems.

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming.

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.