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"I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases."
"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others."
"In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary."
"I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry."
"That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence."
"It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God."
"Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag."
"Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary."
"Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them."
"Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism."
"It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is."
"ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars"
"Ordinary won't change the world."
"I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary."
"The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh."
"One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days"
"The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark."
"Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary."
"Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."
"An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch."
