It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Darius is stocky. And he's not an ordinary fullback because he can run right by you.

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

I'll probably be working. To the ordinary run-of-the-mill person, I think this will just be another day.