#ordinary

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#aim high #apart #art form #big #confines

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

— Christopher Lasch

#common #common language #converse #equates #finds

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#dislike #information #ordinary #ordinary people #people

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. ↗

— John Lennon

#his #jesus #me #ordinary #right

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#darker #draws #emotion #emotions #expressing

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. ↗

— Philip Levine

#attention #come #commonplace #eternity #eyes

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. ↗

— Philip Levine

#because #extraordinary #home #i #i think

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#bombarded #carry #day #deepen #fend

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer. ↗

— John Lone

#extraordinary #i #performer #playing #queen

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#electric #extraordinary #had #her #i