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Quotes About Ordinary

Isn't it strange that when we fall in love, this great dream we have, this extraordinary disease, the only thing in which eather one of us is interested, it's inevitably with some perfectly ordinary drip who for some reason we cannot define is the magic bearer, the magician, the one who brings all this to us. Why?
~ Andrew Holleran
In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people.
~ Paul Giamatti
Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.
~ Michael Leunig
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
~ Jim Rohn
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
~ Kenneth Koch
Biopics no longer have to be about national leaders and well known achievers. Look at 'Sarbjit.' It is about an ordinary Punjabi woman's extraordinary courage to prove her brother's innocence.
~ Satish Kaushik
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.
~ Peter York
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
~ Charles Krauthammer
You can always find people, ordinary people, who will support your particular view, so it becomes a politics of personality, especially at the presidential level. People often go for somebody that they like or somebody that they can identify with.
~ H. W. Brands
It's nice to pretend we could lead a normal life!
~ Lights
I'm pretty boring.
~ Abigail Breslin
What a day-to-day affair life is.
~ Jules Laforgue
I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.
~ Jeff Goldblum
A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn't anything special or anything insanely interesting. I didn't have a crazy personality. I was somewhat book smart, but I wasn't hanging off the teacher, nor was I messing up in class. I wasn't doing much to disrupt anything. I was just there, existing.
~ Santan Dave
The ideal politician is an ordinary representative of his class with extraordinary abilities.
~ Rick Perlstein
Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.
~ Rita Dove
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
~ Robert Bresson
For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.
~ Robert Harris
He expected the other man to be dead—not many could survive a thirty-foot fall to cobblestones with another's weight on top of him—but what he had not expected was to see the fellow's dagger driven to the hilt into his own heart. Such an ordinary-looking man to have tried to kill him. Mat did not think he would even have noticed him in a crowded room.
~ Robert Jordan
ordinary income is often income from labor.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
An ordinary life." Leo smiles in the half dark. "Blood sacrifice!" he yells, startling James. "I came over in nineteen seventy-two; a pioneer, breaking land. I sacrificed myself—all so my sons could be magnificent! I did all this—only to be dog father. Is anyone grateful?
~ Lan Samantha Chang
The problem was that such simple, ordinary bliss seldom formed memories. It was too smooth and silken to adhere. It was the bad stuff, ragged and uneven, that caught, like all those plastic grocery bags stuck in the trees of Baltimore.
~ Laura Lippmann
the creativity – and competitiveness – within Agatha would not be stilled. Her life was enchantingly ordinary. Her imagination was fierce and unstoppable.
~ Laura Thompson
Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton