Ordinary Quotes

Simple things are the most difficult ones; they enquire much more than one thought of ordinariness.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker’s family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

I don’t work at being ordinary.

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.