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When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.
There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.
My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.
Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.
In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.
Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him
Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Mass immigration changes countries beyond recognition. Ordinary people are well aware of that.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
I am sorry," Will said. "No," Jem said... "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.
I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!
Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit
After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.
I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.
Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?
It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.