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  • That's No Ordinary Girl -- B.J. Neblett
  • Ordinary won't change the world. -- Lewis Pugh
  • Ordinary people have extraordinary love. -- Clay Walker
  • Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact. -- Matthew Barnett
  • Ordinary life does not interest me. -- Anais Nin
  • Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. -- Harvey Pekar
  • Ordinary people can bring about change. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. -- Patricia Stephens Due
  • Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. -- John W. Gardner
  • Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley
  • Ordinary morality is innate in my view. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me -- Marilynne Robinson
  • Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. -- Gerard Way
  • Ordinary is a word that has no meaning. -- Robin Morgan
  • No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights -- Joe Biden
  • Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education. -- Robin Sharma
  • Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective. -- Angela Howell
  • Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age. -- J. L. Austin
  • Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too! -- Ernie J Zelinski
  • Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage. -- Enoch L. Johnson
  • Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries. -- Robin Sharma
  • Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason. -- Graham Greene
  • The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental. -- Mason Cooley
  • Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries. -- Robin Sharma
  • Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness. -- Sarada Devi
  • Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership. -- Seth
  • Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models. -- Marian Wright Edelman
  • Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton... -- Annie Proulx
  • Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers. -- Ray Johnson
  • Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple. -- Robert G. Allen
  • Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. -- Hermann Hesse
  • Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. -- Anne Frank
  • Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: It won't allow you to fly. -- Rajneesh
  • Ordinary people can do extra ordinary things when they create opportunity towards their passion -- Sivaprakash Sidhu
  • Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all. -- Alexander Theroux
  • Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds. -- J. Patrick Lewis
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  • Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. -- Boris Pasternak
  • Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary. -- Danny Boyle
  • I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences. -- Sonia Sotomayor
  • Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde
  • I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. -- Alice Paul
  • Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. -- Cecil Beaton
  • Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. -- Socrates
  • It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. -- C. S. Lewis
  • I am an ordinary person. -- Frances McDormand
  • To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. -- Alice Paul
  • I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. -- Lou Holtz
  • There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. -- Ezra Pound
  • I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. -- Muhammad Ali
  • Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
  • A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. -- Jim Rohn
  • You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. -- C. S. Lewis
  • One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me. -- Gillian Anderson
  • God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not. -- Smith Wigglesworth
  • Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff. -- Nick Cave
  • Live a life less ordinary. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things. -- Donna Summer
  • Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. -- Blaise Pascal
  • I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. -- Mary McGarry Morris
  • Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. -- William Arthur Ward
  • And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. -- Viola Davis
  • A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. -- Christopher Reeve
  • Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. -- Iris Murdoch
  • It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. -- Loren Eiseley
  • Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. -- Daryn Kagan
  • My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships. -- Vikas Swarup
  • To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. -- Elliott Erwitt
  • Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all. -- Nelson Mandela
  • It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. -- David Bailey
  • It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine. -- Jonah Lomu
  • My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile. -- Jennifer Garner
  • I hate ordinary people! -- Louisa May Alcott
  • Consciously cultivate the ordinary. -- Walker Percy
  • There are no ordinary lives. -- Ken Burns
  • Do ordinary things extraordinarily well. -- Gregg Harris
  • There are no ordinary moments. -- Dan Millman
  • I'm not an ordinary prisoner. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • I'm just an ordinary person. -- Annie Lennox
  • Find joy in the ordinary. -- Max Lucado
  • The ordinary is the divine. -- Cynthia Ozick
  • There are no ordinary cats. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • All truth is very ordinary. -- Brian Perkins
  • No one is ever ordinary. -- Tanith Lee
  • ordinary is the door for extraordinary. -- Rajneesh
  • Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea! -- Agatha Christie
  • Do ordinary things with extraordinary love. -- Mother Teresa
  • Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary. -- Andrew Motion
  • Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. -- Mark Haddon
  • Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
  • There is nothing "ordinary" about reality. -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous. -- Simon Armitage
  • Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace -- Chuck Jones
  • We're all pretty ordinary on paper. -- Michael Bergin
  • The ordinary can be like medicine. -- Sherman Alexie
  • Be content with an ordinary life. -- Laozi
  • People want you to be ordinary. -- Robert Crais
  • I am just an ordinary Catholic. -- Maggie Gallagher
  • I can be very ordinary looking. -- Rachel Tucker
  • I don't work at being ordinary. -- Paul McCartney
  • Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life. -- Frank Fools Crow
  • If something isn't special, then it's ordinary. -- Nora Roberts
  • Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. -- Tom Hooper
  • Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. -- Charles Lindbergh
  • ...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. -- Ellen Dissanayake
  • Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things! -- Jim Valvano
  • Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well. -- Jim Rohn
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