Ordinary Quotes - page 12

When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'. (Winston Graham)
Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through. View quote
Paul Gascoigne
An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong. View quote
John Flanagan
I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player. View quote
Imran Khan
Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary. View quote
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life. View quote
Margaret Mahy
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters. View quote
Margaret Mahy
I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband. View quote
Melissa Bank
The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things. View quote
Mia Love
We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours. (Mark Millar)
People want you to be ordinary. View quote
Robert Crais
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story. View quote
Pete Townshend
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich. View quote
Spencer W. Kimball
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come. View quote
C.K. Williams
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. View quote
Harvey Pekar
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. View quote
Eric Sevareid
The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation. View quote
Arne Glimcher
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before. View quote
Asa Gray
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war. (Aslan Maskhadov)
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted. View quote
Bill Shorten
When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people. View quote
Brian Chesky
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. View quote
Benjamin Haydon
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent. View quote
Charles C. Mann