#ordinary

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#countries #eager #for the people #i #i think

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#earth #god #i #ordinary #put

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#distorted #features #his #imaginative #man

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#does #either #fact #forest #greater

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk. ↗

— Billy Idol

#ordinary #ordinary people #people #rock #talk

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

— E. Stanley Jones

#better #church #desire #ordinary #really

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#book #cure #ever #farmer #group

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old. ↗

— Neil Kinnock

#grow #i #ill #old #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

#absurdly #am #amp #artistic #been

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

#consultant #fifty #guy #home #miles