Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life. Votes: 1
I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff. Votes: 1
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness. Votes: 1
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have. Votes: 1
It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course. Votes: 0
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight. Votes: 0
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. Votes: 0
Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie. Votes: 0
Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary. Votes: 0
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Votes: 4 Thomas A. Edison
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Votes: 3 John W. Gardner