“To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.” PeopleGivingCharacterLastsForgetPiecesHappenedAdviceFailureGoes OnBearsOrdinaryProofFancyOrdinary LifeMortification Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.” KnowsWholeStoriesHappensLastsRecordsHappenedOrdinaryWinterThings Happen Author:Markus Zusak
“The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.” IfsPersonsImportantHappensReadingHappenedOrdinaryPsychedelicPsychedelic ExperienceOrdinary Person Author:Terence McKenna
“Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.” KnowsYearsAbleAmericaPastTimeFallSpeakLanguageHoursHappenedCenturyEventsFlowerSpeechOrdinaryChinaAcceptedRelatedPassagesScholarLeafsGrammarIncidentsTenseDynastyImmediacy Author:Nora Waln
“Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, 'I can't believe this happened to me.' And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street?” PeopleThinkingBelieveKindI CanIdeasHappensFacesPovertyHappenedStreetsOrdinaryExpectationsAbsolutesEverydayIllnessContemptCatastropheOrdinary PeopleOrdinarinessEveryday Things Author:Caroline Myss
“The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.” TryingPersonsDoeBookMomentsStoriesSeemsRealizingPerfectCasesHappenedCenturyGrewOrdinaryAccountsRegardCleverNakedAdamStoryteller20th CenturyGenesisModernismAdam And EveAllegoryFigsBook Of GenesisClever Person Author:Philip Pullman
“In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."” LooksKindAbleHappenedReaderOrdinaryDistanceOddAddresses Author:Paul Auster
“The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.” KindHardPlayCharacterInterestingHappenedOrdinaryExtraordinaryCleverVery InterestingPolicemenInteresting ThingsCharismaticExtraordinary ThingsInteresting CharactersBlokes Author:Robbie Coltraine
“Anytime you do something out of the ordinary, there will be skeptics. Everyone wants a reason why. That's fine. What's happened with me is just an accumulation of a lot of things.” WantReasonHappenedFineOrdinaryReason WhyAccumulationSkeptic Author:Brian Roberts
“There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world just like a crazy thing happened inside our world. So we don't shy away from that stuff. We take semi-ordinary characters, even though they have their own skill sets, we take those guys and we drop them into extraordinary situations and watch how the get out of them.” WorldMomentsCharacterHappensGuyFunStuffInterestingSituationWatchesHappenedCrazySkillsOrdinaryExtraordinaryThings HappenOddShyOur WorldCrazy Things Author:Todd Farmer
“I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.” PeopleMomentsStoriesHappensHappenedOrdinarySurpriseIntimateAggressionScandalOutrageousLots Of Friends Author:Claudia Rankine