Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.
Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.
Donald Trump spoke to the experience of ordinary working people when he dubbed Nafta the 'worst trade deal ever made.'
I 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.
Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.
That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Take new values: Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
I, for one, am, like, the most ordinary person. Like, people look past me all the time because I'm just so blending in.
He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.
If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you'll simply need to keep evolving. Whether what you seek is above or below.
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.
I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.
..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.
The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.
I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
I think people looked at me as one of them - an ordinary girl from an ordinary family with a voice they could recognise.
Malayalis tend to be nostalgic about rustic storylines, pastoral themes and ordinary folk who lead a simple way of life.
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day
Ordinary Women was shot on a soundstage with a professional crew and a professional animation studio creating everything.
We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.