Ordinary Quotes

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. Donald Sinden
Life Daily You People Stage Too See Come Subjected Quite Ordinary Them Should Across Why Daily Life
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. Doris Lessing
Respect Learning People Past Society Books Respected Disappeared Very In The Past Ordinary Literature Ordinary People Realize Much Whole Serious Now
Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people. Doug Stanton
Life Conflict People Writing Opportunities Dramatic About Superheroes Talk Provided Person Substantial Ordinary Ordinary People Really Moments
I can't explain my popularity. I suppose I'm just an ordinary bloke, and a lot of people see a little bit of Eddie in themselves. Eddie the Eagle
People Bit See Suppose Eddie Bloke Lot Just Ordinary Explain Little Little Bit Themselves Popularity
The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence. Edmund Morgan
Politics History Culture People Definition Has-Been High Rather Only Colonial Almost New Faint Period Traces Leave Been Existence Proving Than America Behind Unfortunately Ordinary Which Ordinary People Social Ground
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. Edvard Munch
Spiritual Made Sense Poems Records Prose Partly Diary Experiences Ordinary Ordinary Sense Lengthy Notes
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. Edward Witten
Life Experience Physics Strong Everyday Life Building Everyday Our Weak Take Perhaps Beyond Forces Building Blocks Equipment Blocks Lots Ordinary Explore Basic Gravity
The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet. Edward Witten
Time Three Extra Dimensions Plus Small Observed Beyond Been Ordinary Spatial Theory Sufficiently Four Interpreted
Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that's great. But that's not ordinary in a day's work. Elizabeth Strout
Work Day Great You Sometimes Will Tremendous Tremendous Amount Sections Out Kind Paragraph Come Although Oh Just Rewrite Rewriting Just Kind Ordinary Lucky Amount
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. Elizabeth Taylor
Pretend Housewife Ordinary
A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man. Emilio Estevez
Man People Focus Thought Extraordinary Would Rather More Make Always Hiring Than Just Wanted Ordinary Story Ordinary Man Ordinary People Bobby Required Actor Universal
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. Eric Sevareid
Home Guy More Consultant Than Any Ordinary Ordinary Guy Fifty Miles
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. Ernest Bevin
War Great Man Protection Before Think Has-Been Folk Could Facts Never Had Put Calmly Been Common Common Man Ordinary Which Against
The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but because he is always himself. We have seen him pay his own hotel bill and heard that Francis called Buenos Aires for a pair of ordinary black shoes, like John XXIII, who preferred stout peasant shoes to the traditional papal footwear. Eugene Kennedy
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Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are. Eula Biss
Me Research Our Citizens Some About Risk Like Most How Handle Did Irregular Ordinary Interesting Assessment
I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens. Eve Arnold
People Extraordinary See Simply Front Anybody Ordinary Either Them Lens
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable. Eve Ensler
Women Made Become Think Absolutely Acceptable Been America Ordinary Against Violence
When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people. Fiona Barton
You People Events Think Extraordinary About Thrillers Involve Often Psychological Happening Ordinary Ordinary People
I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free. Florence Welch
Life Time You Yourself Personality Free Lose Stage Bits Run Like Sensation Being Ordinary Which Ordinary Life Sanctuary Them Creating Your Flight Keep
France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the world. Sometimes directing or leading the way is not enough, he has to initiate policies, as Nicolas Sarkozy was able to demonstrate during his term. Francois Hollande
World Sometimes Leader Country Enough President France Way Able Directing He Leading Term Policies Demonstrate His Any Just Ordinary Europe Initiate
I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day. Frank Lautenberg
Work Buy Good Day Me Every Day People Will Every Say Distributed Eat More Any Tax Want Tax Cut Ordinary Ordinary People Cut Who Among Need
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Frank McCourt
Miserable Worse Catholic Irish Irish Catholic Than Childhood Ordinary
I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well. Fred Couples
Me People Think Relate Joe Seems Like Know Well Very Just Golf Ordinary Who Players Plays
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years. Fred Saberhagen
Time Book Stress Few Books Bad Some Through Bad Time Come Most Readers Years Comments Times Happened Ordinary Them Forty Forty Years Who Helping Lives Credit Actually Appreciate
I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission. Fritz Sauckel
Me Made Soldier Give Give Me Join Had Allowed He Written Permission Repeatedly Refused Ordinary Fuehrer Might Requests
I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever. G-Eazy
Music Time Day Fans Thought Somebody One Day Would Would-Be About Guy Feel Like Always Been Forever Same Same Time Ordinary Ordinary Guy Really Successful Cared
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