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I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
If you are a very ordinary human being, nothing affects you, nothing bothers you, and nothing troubles you. That's how I live my life.
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too.
I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
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 ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.
Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.
She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.
Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin
I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.
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 used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in a band. It's not for everyone.
What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.
It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.
I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.
He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.
Our great nation put a man on the moon, but it can't train its cops to distinguish between an ordinary brown-skinned brother and a criminal.
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.
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.