#ordinary

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#childlike #flight #giants #great #great man

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'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

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#around #bang #bottom #building #curtains

I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job. ↗

— Bernie Mac

#guy #i #job #ordinary #ordinary guy

The country is in an extraordinary ferment. ↗

— William Hamilton Maxwell

#extraordinary #ferment

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#extraordinary #i #just #loves #movie

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#believe #big #blockbuster #does #extraordinary

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. ↗

— Alice Paul

#complicated #direction #doubted #equal #equal rights