Quotes About Ordinary

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.

I'll tell you what I do have: I have a good feel for ordinary people, for politics, and those are my strengths. I understand, I hope instinctively, where many of our Armed Forces come from.

This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.

I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.

I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in a band. It's not for everyone.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange of speech. It was something that had a certain formality, something in which the words were of interest in themselves.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

I am an ordinary woman from a Tamil family.

We live very ordinary lives.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.