Quotes About Ordinary

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

The idea of a regular-looking guy who is the lead of something - whether it's a movie or a show - is something that I really hope I can grow towards.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of history with the lives of ordinary people.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

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.

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.

We all grow up thinking we are special. Earlier I realises that I am ordinary, chances are that I grow up into someone special. Late realisation of this fact is very heart-wrenching.

In our very ordinariness', we are capable of extraordinary actions

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing, " Genevieve worried. "What would I tell them?""Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, " said Bloom.

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.