Ordinary

Famous quotes containing the word ordinary:

    “... in ordinary fiction, movies, etc. everything is smoothed out to seem plausible—villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word of it.”
    —Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)

    “Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people—but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)