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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
G. Willow Wilson
Me
Something
Insomnia
Came
Ordinary
Reasons
Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
G. Willow Wilson
You
Members
Muslims
Like
Just
Ordinary
Public
Working
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
Gary Oldman
Life
Live
Enjoy
Overall
Anonymity
Normal
Very
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Certain
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Gavin Bryars
Music
People
Feelings
Way
Touching
Another
Another Way
Making
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Lives
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.
Gene Wilder
Character
Mistake
World
Made
Lover
Neurotic
Lead
Lead Character
Perfectly
Leading
Him
Greatest
Audience
Normal
Person
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
Sent
Hollywood
Sane
Should
Basic
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
George Henry Lewes
Men
Nothing
Live
About
Objects
No Wonder
Feel
New
Learn
Wonder
Familiar
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
Them
Nothing New
Grow
Among
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell
Time
Man
Personality
Sections
Only
His
Intellectual
Different
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
Then
Certain
Even
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
George Will
Job
Gone
Ordinary
Your
Lives
Elevating
Spectacle
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
Gerald R. Ford
Success
Great
Quality
People
Nation
Our
Neglected
Seem
Proud
Square
Accounts
Stability
Ordinary
Straight
Many
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
Geraldine Brooks
Courage
People
Gone
September
Heroism
Through
Never
Revealed
Demonstrate
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Might
Who
Lives
Extent
I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress.
Gerry Harvey
Business
Big
Impress
Typical
Ways
Carry
Wear
Casual
Part
Town
Fairly
Tie
Got
Very
Than
Office
Person
Ordinary
Prefer
Much
Your
Business Person
Many
Downplay
Briefcase
Suit
I get a lot of comments from people that I'm just an ordinary bloke. They immediately feel they have a closer relationship with you; they relate to you.
Gerry Harvey
Relationship
You
People
Relate
Immediately
Feel
Bloke
Lot
Comments
Get
Closer
Just
Ordinary
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man
Sense
Strictly
He
Mere
Scientific
Essential
Ordinary
Swept
Away
Associations
The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Work
People
Extraordinary
Way
Lord
Done
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Who
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Work
Balance
People
World
Extraordinary
Major
Geniuses
Learned
Done
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Manner
Who
Lives
I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it.
Graeme Base
Nature
Mother
Few
Nothing
White
Extravagant
Kind
Find
Inspiration
Cat
Stuff
Terms
Sort
Unusual
Mother Nature
Yellow
Exotic
Very
Just
Goldfish
Ordinary
Rabbit
Really
Pets
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
Graham Greene
Good
Man
World
Good Man
Monstrous
Something
Only
He
Almost
Himself
Conventional
Regarded
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
I'm somebody who explores extraordinary possibilities, not ordinary ones.
Graham Hancock
Somebody
Extraordinary
Possibilities
Ordinary
Who
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
Graham Swift
Art
Words
Simple
Amazing
Language
Clever
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Simple Words
Come
Make
Occur
Real
Amazing Things
Up
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Use
Things
I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.
Graham Swift
Think
Extraordinary
Find
Like
Begin
Ordinary
No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.
Gretchen Rubin
Great
Humanity
Leader
Country
Past
Too
Heroic
Danger
Churchill
Gigantic
Feared
Seemed
Magnanimous
More
Winston
Winston Churchill
He
Like
Qualities
Him
Limitless
Traditional
His
Than
Effort
Did
Brave
Energies
Ordinary
Apart
Britain
Set
Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic.
Gunnar Myrdal
Culture
Other
Relations
Members
Civilization
Rational
Rationalism
Tend
Mysticism
Between
Pragmatic
His
Western
Western Civilization
Optimistic
Close
American
American Culture
Nations
Being
Romanticism
Ordinary
Even
Compared
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
H. P. Lovecraft
People
About
Could
Write
Because
Am
Least
Ordinary
Interested
Ordinary People
Them
You can always find people, ordinary people, who will support your particular view, so it becomes a politics of personality, especially at the presidential level. People often go for somebody that they like or somebody that they can identify with.
H. W. Brands
Politics
You
People
Personality
Will
Somebody
Presidential
Find
Support
Particular
Like
Identify
Becomes
Always
Go
Often
Ordinary
Ordinary People
View
Your
Who
Level
To me, the puzzle of Ronald Reagan is how a comparatively ordinary man, someone with not extraordinary talent, accomplished such extraordinary results. At the age of 50, no one expected that this was going to be the guy who would become, at least in my interpretation, one of the two most important presidents of the 20th century.
H. W. Brands
Me
Man
Age
Important
Become
Interpretation
Extraordinary
Presidents
Would
Someone
Guy
Results
No-One
Puzzle
Talent
Most
How
Reagan
Least
Accomplished
Expected
Going
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
Ronald Reagan
Century
Who
Comparatively
Two
Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.
Hans Matheson
Love
Time
Me
Man
People
Walk
Complaining
Films
Programmes
Drama
Back
Those
TV
Must
About
Faces
Seems
More
Costume
Put
Feel
Nobody
Period
Knows
Because
Am
Than
Modern
Going
Quite
Ordinary
Which
Conversations
Your
Who
Lucky
Suit
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