"Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things."

-- Studs Terkel

#Air Quotes #People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.”
“What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.”
“More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important.”
“In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.”
“We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.”
“The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.”

Source : Leanne Shapton (2012). “Swimming Studies”, p.188, Penguin
“My father used to think the word 'legend' was tossed around far too often. I want to say today that in the opinion of his family, my father was a legend.”
“If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.”

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