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Quotes About Ordinary

Jin used to be an ordinary guy in the team, but he's the mood maker now. He's the most wicked and funniest of all. No one in BTS is normal, though, come to think of it.
~ Jungkook
By itself, just to draw crazy creatures has limited appeal - if I had to give up one thing, it would be the wild imagination. When the work becomes too detached from ordinary life, it starts to fall apart. Fantasy needs to have some connection with reality, or it becomes of its own interest only, insular.
~ Shaun Tan
I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.
~ Matt Lauer
I do not know how I shall develop, but for the present, I am continuing to work within ordinary, generally known terrain, different only because of a deep substratum, which leads those who are receptive to sense the finer regions.
~ Piet Mondrian
I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.
~ Jude Law
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
~ Jurgen Habermas
There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
~ Robert South
We don't need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.
~ Robert Walser
They talk but their words don't register on the soundtrack. Anyway, they must be saying things like how was your day, I'm tired, there's an avocado sandwich in the kitchen, thanks, thanks, a beer in the refrigerator.
~ Roberto Bolano
la vida no sólo es vulgar sino también inexplicable
~ Roberto Bolano
Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.
~ Robin McKinley
To call something unremarkable simply because it happens every day and is commonly available is harmful to the enthusiasm and depth with which we can live.
~ Robin Rose Bennett
I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn't know that there might be another way to live, and I didn't worry about it either.
~ Lisa See
Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
~ Lisa See
Maybe that's what we're all like with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
~ Lisa See
What we call miraculous, God calls business as usual.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
Annemarie admitted to herself, snuggling there in the quiet dark, that she was glad to be an ordinary person who would never be called upon for courage.
~ Lois Lowry
He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycling home from uneventful days at work, ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, as others before him had, to bear their burden.
~ Lois Lowry
You only live at once. Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have an ordinary life.
~ Lorrie Moore
It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
~ Louisa May Alcott
You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead and ordinary life?
~ Louisa May Alcott
Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You're ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho' I don't know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.
~ Louisa May Allcott
He was just plain John, the next-door neighbor.
~ Ron Chernow