“I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.” KindBookWrittenSubjectsReaderOrdinaryIntelligentAcademic Author:Brian Crozier
“Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives.” WellsBookFeltHeardSubjectsChangedOrdinaryInspiredCome UpMiserableLife ChangingAgain And AgainModestBetter LifeLibrarianHousewifeChanged My LifeOrdinary Life Author:Germaine Greer
“He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.” MenWayHumansStillsStatesShowsRememberEvilCausesConditionsSubjectsChangedOrdinaryAccidentsThreatenedRecognizingEmperorOrdinary Man Book:Essays Source: Essays
“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.” ThinkingWayMeanDifferentFormRaceImpossibleSubjectsDesignCommunicationJudgmentComputerTrainingOrdinaryTasksImportanceCommunicateDifferent WaysCapabilityEngineeringEngineersInadequateComputer Systems Author:Maurice Wilkes
“Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.” IfsPersonsHumanityFoundInterestingSubjectsOrdinaryAvenuesOrdinary Person Author:William Zinsser
“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.” IdeasSometimesHelpingHomeFormForceLosesMy OwnLossGriefWonderBreakGraceSubjectsStrangeSurvivalOrdinarySafetyDeeperDisappearFamiliarOpeningGrantedGrievingRoutineContinuingSheerManhattanStrangenessUnderworldBarbershop Author:Mark Doty
“Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the very same idea's beneficial effect.” PeoplePersonsIdeasUsedAcceptingKnowingSubjectsEffectsObjectsOrdinaryConceptsRejectsAcquaintanceBeneficialProposeOrdinary Person Author:Anuj
“I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.” FunSubjectsReaderOrdinaryUnusualConvincing Author:Susan Orlean
“The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master” WorldWellsDoeLawRolesSubjectsMastersCitizensMajorsOrdinaryRegardWesternGuaranteesArbitraryRelianceTransformingRule Of LawWestern SocietyOrdinary Citizens Book:There's no such thing as a free lunch Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch
“By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.” MayRealSubjectsOrdinaryExtraordinaryPreciseSurrealIntersections Author:Constantine Manos
“It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.” PersonsArtChoicesQualityWeekSubjectsDependsSkillsPhotographyOrdinaryCamerasDemocraticTechniquePityArtisticExposureImpatientCarelessGadgetsOrdinary PersonTechnical SkillsFoolproof Author:W. H. Auden
“...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in form or in composition or in subject matter, but more ordinary, that's the challenge.” ThinkingMatterFormChallengesRoomsSubjectsWallFindingsOrdinaryDramaticCompositionLightingSubject MatterOff The Wall Author:Larry Sultan
“There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?” MenWayArtScienceSubjectsTheoryOrdinaryRaisedAttractionCharmInherentTowersImposingColossalEdifice Author:Gustave Eiffel