Quotes About Ordinary

The twentieth century was wedded to the remembrance of things past, with Proust making the act of remembrance an art of sensory timeslip in the first texts which would become A la Recherche du Temps Perdu in 1913 and with Joyce making an epic forever out of a single passing ordinary day with the serialization of the first chapters of Ulysses not long after.

People's lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

The company of true friends, the taste of good food, the blossoms in spring, all the ordinary things that make the texture and meaning of life

Quando se vê um fato que não se compreende, e quanto mais extraordinário ele é, mais suspeitas desperta e mais o pensamento se esforça para lhe dar uma causa vulgar; se ele, porém, for compreendido, é logo admitido por ter uma razão de ser, desaparecendo assim o maravilhoso e o sobrenatural

an average Wednesday in October

Çünkü Romani ismin kullanmak demek; mutlaka bir plan?n?n, bir nedenin olmas? anlam?na gelir. Çünkü takma ad kullan?lan iÅŸler s?radan iÅŸler deÄŸildir. Çünkü Visily Romani s?radan bir h?rs?z deÄŸil. (syf. 130 – 131)

If anyone had told her that belonging to the gilded youth of a provincial town augured nothing out of the ordinary for her, she would not have believed it. She wasn't planning anything, per se, she just knew that it would be tremendous. When she woke up in the morning, she could feel a powerful summons in her heart, and she let herself be borne along by her enthusiasm. The new day promised events, their nature as yet unknown. She cherished this impression of imminence.

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordinary is their ability to accumulate wealth, how hard they work, and what they do for a living.

My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He's got a lousy tax cut. It's only good for the super wealthy. I've got a tax cut that will help ordinary people.

Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.

Many people - when they think about North Korea and the dictatorship, or the military or nuclear weapons, nuclear missiles, those things - tend to forget ordinary citizens are living there.

Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.

I can't explain my popularity. I suppose I'm just an ordinary bloke, and a lot of people see a little bit of Eddie in themselves.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

My family is average. I didn't have a crazy life as a kid.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.