#ordinary

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#because #better #granted #i #just

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#direction #motion #notion #ordinary #spin

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#bread #butter #extraordinary #hard #you

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy. ↗

— Brian Perkins

#born #death #eternal #extinction #extraordinary

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary. ↗

— Brian Perkins

#fact #in fact #make #ordinary #sounds

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#become #billie #billie holiday #extraordinary #holiday

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#just #ordinary #parish #priest #wanted

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#any #aside #bad #basically #being

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#genius #man #ordinary #ordinary man #see

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#commit #extraordinary #feels #guilt #how