Quotes About Ordinary

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.

The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.

The extra-ordinary secret to success is nothing but ordinary belief.

I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity.

When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.

The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That's the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That's what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there's always a role for the Everyman.

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.