Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Gervais

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

Brian Jacques

Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.

Benjamin Haydon

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.

Bernard Cornwell

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Desiree Rogers

I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

Dean Koontz

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

Charles Lyell

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

Charles Kuralt

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

C. S. Lewis

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Agnes Repplier

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Charles Lamb

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Edmund Spenser

There is no disputing about taste.

Bill Murray

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Dick Van Dyke

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

John Battelle

Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example.

Matthew Aid

The stuff they pulled should never have been removed. Some of it is mundane and some of it is outright ridiculous.

Jeanne Calment

I didn't like mundane life.

Martha Reeves

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

Mahatma Gandhi

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.