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  Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

  John Ruskin

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Intended, Ordinary

• I’ve been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I’m quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I’m one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Estimate, Ordinary, Results

• If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

  George Will

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Ordinary

• The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

  George Steiner

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Ordinary, Man

• I’m just an ordinary person.

  Annie Lennox

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ordinary

• The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Average, Thing, Ordinary

• To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Being, Ordinary

• If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I’ve done my superhero gig.

  Todd McFarlane

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Ordinary

• Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

  George Henry Lewes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ordinary, Men, Feeling

• I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Become, Leader, Ordinary

• You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Real, Ordinary

• Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

  Christopher Lasch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language, Ordinary

• I’ll continue on the path I’ve been taking, feet on the ground, describing people’s lives, describing people’s emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

  Mo Yan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ordinary, Path

• Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

  Roger Penrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Direction, Ordinary

• The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

  Asa Gray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ordinary, Plants, Animals, Best

• In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

  Eli Stanley Jones

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ordinary, Church, Respectability

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forward, Place, Ordinary

• And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

  Stephen King

  Topics in God

  Tags in People, Ordinary

• I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ordinary, Housewife

• On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

  Eric Cantona

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ordinary, Shot