J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

What makes me unique is that I'm normal.

I'm really a normal person.

My life is extraordinary because it's so normal, but it's so 'extra' for some reason.

I'm pretty normal, you know?

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

I'm not special, no more special than anybody else.

I'm really just a normal person.

I don't consider myself to be an extraordinary person.

I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.

I am a simple, ordinary mother.

I am as average as they get - there is nothing special about me. I'm just getting by.

Banality is sometimes striking.

I'm just a normal person.

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.