#ordinary

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#bonded #craft #destinies #emotionally #extraordinary

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#being a man #forgive #i #make #man

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#appreciate #bad #bad time #book #books

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #feeling #finds

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#around #community #extraordinary #here #i

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

— John Lone

#extraordinary #i #performer #playing #queen

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#events #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #force #heroic

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#body #directly #god #immediately #ordinary

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy. ↗

— James McGreevey

#doing #extraordinary #father #i #i can

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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