Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life…

Once in the middle of an ordinary life,love gives us all a fairy tale

— Anonymous

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

— Anonymous

“For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.”

— Ana Monnar

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

— Edna O'Brien

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

— Frank McKinney

Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make…

— Virginia Postrel

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at…

— Patricia Highsmith

Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they…

— Germaine Greer

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

— Alain de Botton

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life…

— A. E. Waite

My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is…

— Sandy Skoglund

“Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?

— Annie Dillard

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or…

— Christopher Koch

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape…

— Jean Baudrillard