Quotes About Ordinary

Mistress Allen was only an ordinary provincial manor lady, bent on nothing more sinister than retrieving money of which she felt defrauded, and in the process either quarreling with or using people.

Ordinary people do this either at random or through practice and from acquired habit.

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace. The

There are strange red depths in the soul of the most commonplace man.

We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.

Crime is a commonplace, existence is a commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

Mi dica, dottore, a cosa serve avere determinate facoltà se non c'è modo di impiegarle? Il delitto è banale, la vita è banale, e soltanto le qualità banali hanno ormai una funzione sulla terra.

Son los delitos corrientes, sin rasgos característicos, los que de verdad confunden, del mismo modo que un rostro corriente es el más difícil de identificar.

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

To find extraordinary difficulty in doing an ordinary action is a favor which calls for gratitude.

He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness.

She knew that there was nothing heroic or obviously dramatic in it, no magic of rare hours, nor valiant challenge, but it seemed to her that she was of some significance because she was commonplaceness, the ordinary life of the age, made articulate and protesting.

The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn

you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes

I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper's come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don't know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

I lead a very conventional life.

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.

Simple survival is never as ordinary as it seems!

Some long for acceptance while others fear for anything ordinary.