The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself -… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts.… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Artful without being pretentious, well-made without being staid, Trey Moody's investigations of our weird and ordinary world are a little off, by… — Graham Foust Copy Share Image
It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time,… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party.… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter.… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image