#ordinary

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#bad #being #bird #cannot #decent

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#extraordinary #eye #find #heroes #i

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #characters #everyday #everyday life #life

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#conceived #destiny #extraordinary #god #him

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#chechnya #i #me #more #much

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular. ↗

— Tom McCall

#i #measures #popular #realize #required

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

The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#america #around #back #because #chin

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#even #i #much #myself #ordinary

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#doing #i #incapable #job #ordinary