Quotes tagged ‘Ordinary’

“I like watching you do ordinary things.”

— Sarah Streicher, Leah Rilke, Sarah Pidgeon, imdb.com

“Ordinary is not a word I would use to describe you.”

— Steve Blackman, Leonard Peabody, John Magaro, imdb.com

“Look at those assholes, ordinary fucking people. I hate 'em.”

— Alex Cox, Bud, Harry Dean Stanton, imdb.com

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”

— Oscar Wilde, instagram.com

“There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?”

— Bryan Cranston, Pam Halpert, Jenna Fischer, imdb.com

“I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.”

— Alan Ball, Angela Hayes, Mena Suvari, imdb.com

“Angela Hayes: Yeah? Well, at least I'm not ugly! Ricky Fitts: Yes, you are. And you're boring, and you're totally ordinary, and you know it.”

— Alan Ball, Ricky Fitts, Wes Bentley, imdb.com

“Ordinary men avoid trouble. Extraordinary men turn it to their advantage. You and I have that in common.”

— Howard Korder, Gaston Means, Stephen Root, imdb.com

“Beth: Am I evil? Rick: Worse, you're smart. When you know nothing matters, the universe is yours. And I've never met a universe that was into it. The universe is basically an animal, it grazes on the ordinary. It creates infinite idiots, just to eat them, not unlike your friend Timmy.”

— Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com

“The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“I know this must feel so strange, but ordinary is just what you're used to. This may not be ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. This will become ordinary.”

— Margaret Atwood, Aunt Lydia, Ann Dowd, imdb.com

“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...”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”

— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com

“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

— Oscar Wilde, silverpetticoatreview.com

“Sometimes the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary by doing them with the right people.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.”

— Stephen Jay Gould, amazon.com

“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”

— Brad Meltzer, goodreads.com

“The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“That’s the curious thing about love, isn’t it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more valuable than they really are.”

— Alexander McCall Smith, amazon.com

“I don’t work at being ordinary.”

— Paul McCartney, courses.music.indiana.edu