Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Eddings

But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

Danny Boyle

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

Rachel Joyce

On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.

Pierre de Coubertin

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

D. H. Lawrence

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

Cynthia Ozick

The ordinary is the divine.

Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

Edward Abbey

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Bertrand Russell

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

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

It would not be out of the ordinary to have six more storms by the end of the year.

Eugene H. Peterson

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.

Eudora Welty

[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

Henry Miller

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

Evelyn Underhill

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

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.

Sometimes ordinary people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances,

Jeanine Pirro

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

Jane Pauley

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

Karen Thompson Walker

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

Ken Burns

There are no ordinary lives.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

Marilyn Monroe

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

Buzz Aldrin

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

Jennifer Aniston

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

Nelson Mandela

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

Nelson Mandela

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

Darius is stocky. And he's not an ordinary fullback because he can run right by you.

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

Michelle Magorian

I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.