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The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

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

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?

Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals.

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.

Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

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

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

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

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.

People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

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

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

My dream is to play ordinary characters. I have no interest in playing a pretty girl or an NRI girl.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

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

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.

What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

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

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

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