Ordinary Quotes

It is freedom that allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.

I believe that most successful people are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.

I come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and we’ve always loved racing together.

For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?

In some cases, you have been lending out your love to those that are used to taking in something ordinary or average, extraordinary and extraterrestrial would always be too much to handle.

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.