I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
Marc Newson
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
Ivor Novello
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
Alfonso A. Ossorio
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
Martin Parr
You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.
Tony Parsons
Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.
Roger Penrose
This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.
Brian Perkins
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
Sidney Poitier
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound