Quotes About Ordinary

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

I am not starry. I am your everyday girl, with not so everyday aspirations in life.

I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

If I'm shopping at the Gap or Old Navy, I'm saying that I'm an ordinary person: I don't want to be seen; I don't want to stand out. That's a statement. If I'm wearing a leather jacket, there's something about me that's kind of a rebel. So everybody says something, whether they want to or not.

If you are actually ordinary, the only way to give royal status meaning is to live an extraordinary life. It can't be jeans and burgers and granny doing the babysitting.

In our heads, only people with celebrity status, glamour and bling pop out as people who have stories. I find the ordinary life exciting - there is something dark and mysterious about it.

The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake.

Except for the sign on the front lawn, there wasn't much difference between this house and his. World War II bungalows with clapboard siding. Two bedrooms, one bath. A small lawn that ran out to the street. A peaked roof with dark asphalt shingles. Both ordinary, in all ways. One vacant. One empty.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

The ordinary means which the Lord uses in calling us, is not by raptures and revelations,

There are times when it requires a high courage to speak the banal.

Maybe, in the end, that's all that love was—doing the hard thing. Not roses and valentines and walks on the beach, but simply being present, day after ordinary day. The extraordinary romanticism of ordinary life.

Not roses and valentines and walks on the beach, but simply being present, day after ordinary day. The extraordinary romanticism of ordinary life.

Maybe, in the end, that's all that love was—doing the hard thing. Not roses and valentines and walks on the beach, but simply being present, day after ordinary day. The extraordinary romanticism of ordinary life. But

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

I'm an absolutely normal guy.