Explore Quotes on Ordinary

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

MPs are only elected thanks to the help of ordinary members - activists on the ground who traipse the streets, post leaflets and engage in millions of doorstep conversations, come rain or shine and without pay.

When you've got a team who are making a concerted effort to make a batsman feel uncomfortable it can look pretty ordinary.

I'm just a regular person, like any other ordinary person is.

Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.

I love really creative thinking that can make the ordinary extraordinary.

If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.

Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.

We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

People like you to be ordinary, but they prefer you if you're extraordinary. They want you to be a star.

I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children's school; I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous.

Sometimes you need a special player to do something out of the ordinary.

You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?

An ordinary pushup is much more advanced and challenging performed on a stability ball.

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.