#ordinary

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. ↗

— Eric Rohmer

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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. ↗

— Billy Joel

#am #competent #extraordinary #i #i am

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #discovering #extraordinary #literature #ordinary

I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies from the long tail of humanity's bell curve, or was there something we could all learn from their talents? ↗

— Joshua Foer

#humanity #memory #talent #art

Things don’t have to be extraordinary to be beautiful. Even the ordinary can be beautiful. ↗

— Wicker Park

#extraordinary #ordinary #things #beauty

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#always #extraordinary #graces #punishment #sins

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #expose #extraordinary #gift #heart

Not all of our days could be extraordinary. But our lives still could be. ↗

— Erin Mckittrick

#extraordinary #home

The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #ordinary #read #talent #trouble

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story. ↗

— Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#life