Ordinary Quotes - page 13

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. (Cecil Beaton)
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel! View quote
David Josiah Brewer
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. View quote
Daryn Kagan
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. View quote
E. Stanley Jones
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. View quote
Eric Rohmer
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life. View quote
Eugene H. Peterson
I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens. View quote
Eve Arnold
There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. View quote
Edward Zwick
I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well. View quote
Fred Couples
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. (Gavin Bryars)
As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans. View quote
Harold Ford, Jr.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered. View quote
Ivor Novello
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. View quote
James Laughlin
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. View quote
Jimmy Johnson
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. View quote
Joe Slovo
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine. View quote
Jonah Lomu
I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo. View quote
Jonathan Pryce
I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else. View quote
Jake Epstein
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. View quote
Kenneth Koch
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines. (Karen Thompson Walker)
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. View quote
Karen Thompson Walker
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so! View quote
Lionel Blue
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. View quote
Lawrence Hargrave
I am just an ordinary Catholic. View quote
Maggie Gallagher