Glances Quote by Barbara Holland

Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.

— Barbara Holland

“It isn’t easy in our complicated world to enjoy the pleasures of ordinary living—children, family, neighborhood, nature, walking, gathering, eating together. I imagine life…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

— Veronique Vienne

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

— Judith Viorst

In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed…

— Barbara Holland

“It's always like a miracle. No matter how bad everything was on ordinary days, no matter how poor they seemed, on Yontev -- like…

— Ruth Tessler Goldstein

As a stylist, I know accessorization is essential: It is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning…

— Anna Dello Russo

“One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now…

— Colum McCann

“If today was a flavor it would taste like beige...”

— Nanette L. Avery

It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the…

— Hans Børli

Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it…

— Nan Fairbrother

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced…

— Rod Serling

Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the…

— Paulo Coelho

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

— Harvey Pekar

When you are so full that there is no emptiness in you, that you have started feeling the significance of the ordinary, day-to-day existence,…

— Rajneesh