Ordinary Quotes - Page 4

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

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?

Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact.

The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical manoeuvre. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

I always like doing things that no one's ever done before. Doing things a little out of the ordinary.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

I don't work at being ordinary.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.