Ordinary

Famous quotes containing the word ordinary:

“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness—a color, a weight, a texture—that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)

“The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)