Quotes About Ordinary

I am an ordinary person.

I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.

I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.

I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person.

If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.

Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn't know that he's an inspiration.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

I think what I tend to do is look at all the very ordinary things that are around the house and imagine bringing them to life.

I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because this is the part of my childhood that I look back upon with the greatest affection.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.

My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.

I've always thought that there are many things still left in society that are detached from the sense of ordinary people. I won't overlook them and I will determine what is right before taking bold action.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

In a world where authoritarianism of the left or right is a very real possibility, the question of whether ordinary people can govern themselves by consent is still on trial--as it always has been, and always will be. Beyond parliamentary democracy as we know it, we shall have to find a new popular democracy to replace it.

But if there is hope, it lies in ordinary working people. When you put it in words it sounds reasonable: it is when you look at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it becomes an act of faith.

He came across from the pond, the young man and his fridge travelling over land and sea searching for a meaning and purpose in their lives. We speak of Tony Hawks, the Fridge Man. Tony Hawks who came to live amongst us for all but a short while, a Messiah of sorts. We felt ourselves not worthy to touch the hem of his fridge, but then we realised that he was but an ordinary man, his fridge but a little fridge, the son of a bigger fridge--the Big Fridge--the huge, gigantic Fridge in the Sky.

ze heet gewoon Marie ze draagt d'r haar gewoon en steeds als ik haar zie denk ik wat zijt gij schoon ze draagt gewoon een blouse een doodgewone tas ze zingt en praat en lacht gewoon ze doet gewoon de was ze heeft gewoon een huis of eigenlijk meer een flat d'r staan gewoon wat bloemen en er staat gewoon een bed ze heeft gewoon twee kinderen gewoon een hond die blaft ze heeft gewoon een man die liefheeft, eet drinkt en maft hij doet geen wondere zij evenmin en daar zit nou net het bijzondere in

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

Commonplace things can be fascinating.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.