Studs Terkel Quotes

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn't know that he's an inspiration.

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

Ordinary people can bring about change.

Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.