Top 1200 Ordinary Quotes & Sayings

A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

A wound that’d make an ordinary man unconscious, I won’t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I won’t lose to it! To face one who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes - I can’t allow myself to be ordinary!

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

I think people looked at me as one of them - an ordinary girl from an ordinary family with a voice they could recognise.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.

I think some people are not interesting to themselves. They're the sad, resigned folk. When people call themselves ordinary - "I'm just an ordinary person" - you do wonder what they mean, because people who call themselves ordinary occasionally turn out to be serial killers. Beware of those who say they're ordinary.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.

The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordinary is their ability to accumulate wealth, how hard they work, and what they do for a living.

Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man

Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.