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

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.
Bo Bennett

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
Adam Weishaupt

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
Thomas Mann

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
Martin Scorsese

No one is ever ordinary.
Tanith Lee

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.
Prince William

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
William Graham Sumner

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Mason Cooley

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Mason Cooley

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
Donna Summer

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
Mark Haddon