Ordinary Quotes - page 11

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes. (Walter Moers)
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships. View quote
Vikas Swarup
No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'. View quote
Graham Norton
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur. View quote
Graham Swift
An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today. View quote
Daniel Dennett
You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same. View quote
Deb Caletti
I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first. View quote
David Levithan
He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears. View quote
David Levithan
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun. View quote
Alex Flinn
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. (Geraldine Brooks)
I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change. View quote
Jody Williams
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable. View quote
Eve Ensler
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles. View quote
Christina Baker Kline
Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary. View quote
Lisa See
Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family. View quote
Lee Byung-hun
China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself! View quote
Idries Shah
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh. (Alberto Sordi)
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. View quote
Loren Eiseley
You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful. View quote
Ann Brashares
Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires. View quote
Bo Bennett
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. View quote
William Graham Sumner