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As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.
You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.
There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.
I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.
I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.
Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.
If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary.
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary.
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences
Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.
but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.
Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.
An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.
It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.
Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.
Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.