Quotes About Ordinary

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

There are no short cuts to Heaven only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin