“Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.” MenWritingCountryTurnsStuffOrdinaryTalesLike MeRoughSongwritingSoundtracksWorking Man Author:Jay Heinrichs
“An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.” MenArtistStrongForceStuffGreaterOrdinaryWeakDrivingSpotsOrdinary ManDriving ForceWeak Spots Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.” KindDoeSeemsStuffCuttingPagesOrdinaryBackwardsStorytellerTenseModernismShufflePresent Tense Author:Philip Pullman
“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'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.” TryingStuffLevelsRight NowOrdinaryStartingDialogueRearranging Author:William McDonough
“There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.” WorldFeelsDoneGuyFunStuffLove IsCoupleOrdinaryScriptsRuinsHopefullyShootingThis GuyLove MakingGrooveRookiesOrdinary World Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.” HateCultureStuffTalkingOrdinaryI HatePopular Culture Author:Edward Snowden
“Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.” ThinkingWorldLooksPersonsAsksStuffAnswersPleaseOrdinaryMadAsk MeExpertsOrdinary Person Author:Annie Lennox
“I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.” WayBookEndsStoriesTurnsStuffEffortImagineWrittenReaderPagesOrdinaryRevelationsThe End Of The DayImagine ThatRevealingFast PacedSimply LoveMinimal Effort Author:Ashwin Sanghi
“The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.” PeopleWritingHappensHeavenStuffOur LivesMysteryOrdinaryCloudsCoffeeMysteriousCupsGreekCreamCoffee CupWaterfallsDaffodilArcadia Book:Arcadia Source: Arcadia
“We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.” StuffProveOrdinaryBuiltValleysMettleUtmost For His Highest Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.” DoeProblemStuffSoundOrdinaryInstrumentsGuitarist Author:Nick Cave