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no ordinary island, and
— Thomas William Shore
It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.
— Cassandra Clare
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
— Austin O'Malley
What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
— V.C. Andrews
Peace can only be found in what your extraordinary imagination has defined as an ordinary life.
— Shannon L. Alder
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
— George Saintsbury
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
— Wayne Thiebaud
Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
— Anthony Trollope
The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.
— Walter Sickert
What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.
— Richard Llewellyn
Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.
— Roger Von Oech
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.
— Charles Kuralt
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
— Winston Graham
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
— Nelson Mandela
You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.
— Matt Drudge
Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
It must have been worth while having a mere ordinary plague now and then in London to get rid of both the lawyers and the Parliament.
— Jerome K. Jerome
For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.
— Robert Harris
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
— Joseph Campbell
Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
— Andrew Motion
Live a life less ordinary.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
I am sorry," Will said."No," Jem said ... "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry. — Cassandra Clare
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
— Anthony Robbins
I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.
— Asif Kapadia
There are no ordinary cats.
— Colette
I can be very ordinary looking.
— Rachel Tucker
Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men ... learn to suffer.
— Mark Twight
If you want to change the climate of your marriage immediately, start praying for your spouse
— Justin Davis
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
— Eric Rohmer
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
— Elisabeth Elliot
To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.
— Yoshida Shoin
People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.
— Ann Tatlock
But women like Tess didn't seem to have that need to share the ordinary facts of their lives, and that made Cecilia desperate to know them.
— Liane Moriarty
Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise;
— Anthony Powell
Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable ... for us, forever just won't do.
— Steve Maraboli
Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.
— P. F. Strawson
I am living proof that dreams come true. I am an ordinary person leading an extraordinary life.
— Cara Colter
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
— Loren Eiseley
Deciding denial was the better part of valor, CK pretended nothing was out of the ordinary.
— Judy Teel
When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!
— John C. Maxwell
The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.
— Leonard Susskind
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
— Stephen Leacock
Perfection is ordinary; imperfection is beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
— Stieg Larsson
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
— Dinesh D'Souza
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
— Joseph Campbell
We're all pretty ordinary on paper.
— Michael Bergin
Avoid standardized proliferation of the ordinary at the expense of the irreplaceable.
— Raymond Dasmann
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
— Andrea Hirata
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Elbert Hubbard
Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.
— Cassandra Clare
Ordinary people can bring about change.
— Oprah Winfrey
To find extraordinary things, go to the ordinary streets!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
— Theodore Roosevelt
If you don't see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you're not going to resonate very much.
— Artie Shaw
I'll bet the Catholic Church lost out on a lot of would-be nuns when they started dressing like ordinary meter maids.
— Lucia Berlin
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
— Andrew Solomon
He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.
— Paul C. Nagel
Ordinary people with commitments can make an extraordinary impact in their world
— John Maxwell Hamilton
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
— Christina Baldwin
After all, none of us came here to live an ordinary life. Whether we believe it or not, we are all destined for greatness.
— Thea Euryphaessa
For example, when I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary.
— Brene Brown
You may change cause people wanna see you like you are ordinary , But you fight so hard for changing cause someone saw you extraordinary
— Walaa WalkademAgmal
The first transatlantic line that enabled ordinary citizens to call between North America and Europe was laid only in 1956.
— Steven Johnson
Just say, "It happened, but it's over," and get on with the ordinary stuff of family and life.
— David Mitchell
Coaching doesn't make sick people well ... it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.
— Thomas Leonard
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
— Benjamin Graham
Everyone wanted a life less ordinary. And only a tiny minority ever got it, and even they probably didn't appreciate it much.
— Mick Herron
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country
— Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Live Life Less Ordinary
— Benedict Cumberbatch
All ordinary phenomena can be explained by the actions and the motions of particles. For
— Richard Feynman
I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
— Orel Hershiser
At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
— Terry Pratchett
Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family.
— Lee Byung-hun
Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.
— Nicholas Sparks
