A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch
I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered. The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.
Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.
In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream.
In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U. S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat. , Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae. ]
Theres this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldnt be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.
Let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear but around in awareness. Let's see the beauty in everything. Let's create opportunities. Let's step out of something ordinary into something extraordinary!
What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.
If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you'll simply need to keep evolving. Whether what you seek is above or below.
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.
Some banks won't make it. Other banks - are gonna make sure that - we strengthen. All deposits are gonna be - safe for ordinary people. But we're gonna have to wring out some of these bad assets.
There are no ordinary lives.
In the ordinary business of life punctuality is. . . necessary.
ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars
Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.
As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.