There are two things in
ordinary conversation which
ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
View quotes by Stephen Butler LeacockAmong 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.
View quotes by Roland AllenI do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than
ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
View quotes by Sir Isaac NewtonI live a non-journalist's life. I look for the texture of
ordinary things
View quotes by Nuala O'Faolain'I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from
ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.'
View quotes by Anne FrankA man can stand anything except a succession of
ordinary days.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheI warn you not to be
ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
( on prospect of Conservative re-election )
View quotes by Neil KinnockA person buying
ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
View quotes by GalbraithI don't pretend to be an
ordinary housewife.
View quotes by Elizabeth TaylorGenius... is the capacity to see ten things where the
ordinary man sees one.
View quotes by Ezra PoundDo not wait for extra
ordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use
ordinary situations.
View quotes by Jean Paul RichterExcellence is doing
ordinary things extraordinarily well.
View quotes by John GardnerThe
ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
View quotes by Henry MillerHappiness is a matter of one's most
ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
View quotes by Iris MurdochWe all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the
ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.
View quotes by John MuirThe thing you notice here [Britain] after America is how refreshingly
ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears. [on botox]
View quotes by Ian McKellenI kinda see him as an
ordinary everyday schizophrenic psychopath. [on his character]
View quotes by Brian CapronSo
ordinary and unedifying was the sight of the batsmen getting dismissed regularly that the tag of 'chokers in crunch matches' now belongs to them and not South Africa, who had monopolised it for a long time now
View quotes by Sunil GavaskarIt takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so
ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extra
ordinary.
View quotes by David BaileyWhatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an
ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
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