#ordinary

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#asia #athens #beauty #confronted #europe

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#american men #been #before #bulwark #communities

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it. ↗

— Michael Feinstein

#created #died #extraordinary #fresh #george

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#christ #contradiction #extraordinary #figure #i

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ↗

— Bennett Cerf

#ignorance #ordinary #than #times #worse

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#common #contact #din #horrible #i

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#am #aware #because #endeavour #extent

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#down #haven #heard #much #ordinary

You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle. ↗

— Timothy Dalton

#after #crisis #draws #extraordinary #forth

Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#air #been #bit #child #cynically