Explore Quotes on Ordinary

I don't do anything out of the ordinary. I try to eat healthy and exercise as much as I can, even if it's just a 20-minute run.

The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.

Characters that are not the norm or a bit out of the ordinary are always a challenge as an actress. You learn more by using different tools for those type of characters. They are always much more fun to play and much more interesting. They take you places that you wouldn't necessarily go in your everyday life.

Every time there is a terrorist incident involving evil fanatics who abuse the name of Islam, ordinary, law-abiding Muslims pay a heavy price.

It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.

There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.

All players have 'ordinary' periods in their career and it's hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self belief, hard work and hopefully you get the break and your form returns.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

As ordinary citizens, we don't spend much time reading about and thinking through the creation of new laws or amendments of old ones.

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.