
„A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.“
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
„A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.“
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
„There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.“
— Neal Shusterman American novelist 1962
Source: UnWholly
— Harry Emerson Fosdick American pastor 1878 - 1969
Statement made in 1935 or earlier, as quoted in The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern (1937) by Burton Egbert Stevenson
„Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.“
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
„You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary“
— Frederick Buechner Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926
„The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.“
— Virginia Woolf English writer 1882 - 1941
"Women and Fiction"
Granite and Rainbow (1958)
Context: The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life … it is only when we can measure the way of life and the experience of life made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
„The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.“
— Jimmy Johnson American Chicago blues guitarist and singer 1928
„The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.“
— Nicholas Sparks, book The Lucky One
Variant: Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.
Source: The Lucky One
— Ransom Riggs, book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 11, Page 351
„It is only through the ordinary that the extraordinary can make itself perceived.“
— P. L. Travers Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist 1899 - 1996
The Paris Review interview (1982)
„Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things. “
— Донна Саммер American singer and songwriter 1948 - 2012
„Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.“
— Anthony Robbins Author, actor, professional speaker 1960
„Limits… seem to me of two kinds, ordinary or natural, and extraordinary or beyond the natural.“
— Adolphe Quetelet Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist 1796 - 1874
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Context: Limits... seem to me of two kinds, ordinary or natural, and extraordinary or beyond the natural. The first limits comprise within them the qualities which deviate more or less from the mean, without attracting attention by excess on one side or the other. When the deviations become greater, they constitute the extraordinary class, having itself its limits, on the outer verge of which are things preternatural... We must conceive the same distinctions in the moral world.
„You were born as an ordinary human, but make sure you die as an extraordinary human“
— Cornelius Keagon Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996
— Nicholas Sparks, book The Lucky One
Elizabeth Green, Chapter 15, Beth, p. 274
Variant: Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green)
Source: 2000s, The Lucky One (2008)