CRITIC OR CITRIC?Anagram of ordinary passing judgement on talentedKamil Ali

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with...

APPROACHRain is falling. Winter approaches. I drive towards it. In the slow rain. In the semi-darkness. Cello music is playing in the car. The deep sad sound of the cello. It almost swamps me. Routine...

Do not ask your childrento strive for extraordinary lives.Such striving may seem admirable,but it is the way of foolishness.Help them instead to find the wonderand the marvel of an ordinary life.Show them the joy of...

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

That’s important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!

They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don’t accept the ego of ordinary people.

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

My life edges out any sense of sanity I can have, and I come to realize there won’t be a point where things can be ordinary again, or as ordinary as I would have them.

Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!

To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity.

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more....

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.

I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my chapped hands and square palms, at the way my wrists bent and fingers...

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from...

No point in living a life less ordinary if you don’t know what the other side looks like.

Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.Make your lives extraordinary

We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we’re so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same....

The difference between greater people and greatest people is the “est” which stands for “extra mile”. Extra steps give Extraordinary results; Extraordinary people do Extra things.

But what I do believe is that if you’re a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can’t...

Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively.

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who’ve had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be...

If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don’t do it.

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

Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful… a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had...

Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be— EXTRAORDINARY.

The secrets that lead to extraordinary success, won’t make sense to ordinary minds

I don’t really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn’t really. It’s just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I...

No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary.

How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations; those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise how much we rely on the ordinariness of everyday life. When love is...

At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

Credit expansion and money printing hasn’t filtered much to ordinary people. It’s boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have done very well.

I am attracted to certain types of people: the outrageous, outstanding and the one’s pegged as odd. The 3 O’s remind me not to be ordinary.

Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

In an ordinary suit and tie, I’d look like a little macho. I’d be ridiculous.

None of us are ordinary – we just settle into ordinary lives.

Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday’s television. Work and beer. The neighbor’s dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about...

A writer’s goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity …

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, ‘God, I have done all that...

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

I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or...

An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.