I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
Balthus

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.
Jake Epstein

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.
Richard McKenna

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor

I am an ordinary person.
Frances McDormand

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Nicolaus Copernicus

I am just an ordinary Catholic.
Maggie Gallagher

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
Aslan Maskhadov

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou Holtz

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
Henry Ossawa Tanner

I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.
Melita Norwood

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
Elizabeth Taylor

I don't work at being ordinary.
Paul McCartney

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.
Fritz Sauckel

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
Diane Sawyer

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.
Martha Reeves

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
Philip Zimbardo

I hope that as the Senate and the American people learn more about me they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor