Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Catherine McAuley

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Marc Newson

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

Thomas Merton

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Al Franken

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

Harvey Pekar

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

James A. Baldwin

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

Hope Davis

I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.

Robert Browning

Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

Werner Herzog

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

Alan Moore

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

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.

David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary.

Beatrice Webb

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Dee Snider

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

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.