“Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.” WayStoriesMightImagineHeroOrdinaryClaimsEndureNotionIntimateEpicLarrySentimentality Author:Ron Shelton
“Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they are prosperous if the boom starts, and that deficits and indebtedness are merely signs of how prosperous they are.” IfsThinkingLawStrangeOrdinaryEconomicsNotionDeficitProsperousIndebtedness Author:Albert J. Nock
“You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.” PeopleThinkingLooksPlayProblemCitiesOrdinaryDignityAbsolutesNotionFatsFallenLos AngelesTomsScornCruiseBrando Author:Matthew Specktor
“It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.” PeopleIfsThinkingInspirationalSuccessCan DoLearningOrdinaryCommitmentDeterminationNotionOpennessOrdinary PeopleAmazementPreconceived NotionsPreconceived Ideas Author:Ben Stein
“There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.” PersonsOrdinaryNotionRidiculousBuriedOrdinary Person Book:Watchmen Source: Watchmen
“The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.” PeopleThinkingYearsStillsTwoCharacterClassStreetsPeriodsMembersOrdinaryPoliceNotionEducationalBackgroundsDespiteRejectsTwo YearsOfficersWorking ClassOrganisationSpatsMetropolitanEducational Background Author:Ben Aaronovitch
“For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.” MomentsWonderfulOrdinaryNotionWeekendOrdinary DaysOrdinary MomentsWonderful Moments Author:Nicholas Sparks
“People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.” PeoplePersonsTogetherSituationLibertyEconomicIgnoranceOrdinaryEconomicsNotionAverageOrdinary PeopleAverage PersonMore Knowledge Author:Thomas Sowell
“We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American citizen may not know whether or not this person is illegal or not. But, you know, the notion that we're going to criminalize priests, for example, or doctors who are providing services to individuals, and throw them in jail for doing what their calling asks them to do, which is to provide help and service to people in need, I think that is a mistake. I think that's out of America's character.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsMayPersonsWholeCharacterHelpingAmericaAsksIndividualMistakeExampleCitizensCallingOrdinaryDoctorsNotionImmigrationBunchPriestsIllegalJailProvidingDoctor WhoAmerican CitizensGrabbing Author:Barack Obama