Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Aniston

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

Iyanla Vanzant

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

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

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?

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.

Ken Burns

There are no ordinary lives.

Maeve Binchy

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

Oswald Chambers

We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.

Michel de Montaigne

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Henry Ward Beecher

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

Narciso Rodriguez

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Mason Cooley

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Mariel Hemingway

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

Michelle Magorian

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

Michael Pollan

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

Sherilyn Fenn

At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.

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.

Jody Williams

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Lionel Blue

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

Leo Tolstoy

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

Katharine Hepburn

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.