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Ordinary Quotes (page 4)

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Chris Van Allsburg quote: "I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try..."
I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary. Chris Van Allsburg
Alan Moore quote: "There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person...."
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person. Alan Moore
Emily Giffin quote: "You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is..."
You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed) Emily Giffin
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 Thomas Hardy
Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside. Laurell K. Hamilton
Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic. Peter Frederick Strawson
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. Boris Pasternak
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch. Patti Smith
Philip Caputo quote: "War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping..."
War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. Philip Caputo
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. Joseph Lelyveld
Stephen Leacock quote: "There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary..."
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. Stephen Leacock
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world. Augustine Birrell
I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should. Leonard Baskin
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn. William Banting

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