Quotes About Ordinary

I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy.

I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.

I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.

I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'

People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.

I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary.

You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too.

I can be very ordinary looking.

I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.

I am just working every day, day to day, with what I believe. It's a very ordinary way of dealing with your life - just dealing with your work.

I'm just an ordinary judge from California.

I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!