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Quotes About Ordinary

And figuring people out was Nadine's A game. All she could ascertain pointed to a woman who was scary ordinary. But nobody went into this field because they were whole and happy. Two kinds of individuals settled into the profession of psychology, the broken and the ones who like to drive a pin through a living fly to watch it wiggle.
~ Unknown
But Sarah, my dear, don't wish for excitement. Interesting doesn't always mean good. Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
Just a regular gal, Jo thought, and smiled, thinking, If you only knew.
~ Jennifer Weiner
We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as nothing I walked in a gray world of nothing.
~ Jerry Spinelli
We live in a world of banal miracles.
~ Jess Walter
I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.
~ Robert Dessaix
I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.
~ Sienna Miller
I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
~ Teddy Sears
Our behavior to ordinary people depicts our actual nature
~ Sunday Adelaja
No amount of service we do can impress God, only our service to ordinary people can
~ Sunday Adelaja
God appreciates ordinary people
~ Sunday Adelaja
It is only when you pay attention to ordinary people that you convince God that you are really serving Him
~ Sunday Adelaja
I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.
~ Oliver Tambo
I was an ordinary student at school and, at the same time, an actor. But I was not the popular kid, which helped me to play Peter Parker better.
~ Tom Holland
'Normal bloke' is my style.
~ James May
Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.
~ Martin Parr
I love to do subjects that are very common, relatable.
~ Shoojit Sircar
There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.
~ Marlon James
What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.
~ Miuccia Prada