Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Jacques

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

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.

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.

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.

nothing out of the ordinary regarding the first lady's trip overseas.

It has been such an important tool. For ordinary people, for the government, for everyone.

Isaac Newton

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

I'll probably be working. To the ordinary run-of-the-mill person, I think this will just be another day.

Nick Cave

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

Seth Godin

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

Rajneesh

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: It won't allow you to fly.

Michael Bergin

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

Paula Cole

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

James Howe

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

Libba Bray

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

Martin Scorsese

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Jeanine Pirro

This is a short-term remedy, but we need it now. Ordinary New Yorkers are suffering.

Susan Orlean

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

Susan Orlean

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

Susan Cheever

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

Mother Teresa

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Starhawk

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.

Marc Newson

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

Simon Armitage

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

Tanith Lee

No one is ever ordinary.

Tablo

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

Thomas Merton

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

Ralph Goodale

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

Orson Scott Card

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.