I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends and my own best friends' mothers and from surrogates many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life even after their passing.

Bad things do happen in the world like war natural disasters disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

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

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information misinformation disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man but only in certain sections of his personality and even then not all the time.

If we do discover a complete theory it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all philosophers scientists and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

It's the quality of the ordinary the straight the square that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

After my spectacular failures I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

I keep getting these extraordinary letteres really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

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.