Ordinary Quotes

A clown needn’t be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he’s in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they’re just being ordinary men, they’ve got quite sad faces.

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.