Ordinariness Quotes

30 Ordinariness quotes by 29 unique authors

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. — Taylor Caldwell
Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Perceiving life in a consciousness of gratitude is literally stepping into another dimension of living. Suddenly… — Michael Beckwith
In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. Theyâ€™re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinarinessâ€¦Itâ€™s not so much to ask, I said.… — Anatole Broyard
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate. — Ronald Blythe
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the… — Kenny Smith
The theme of the collection this time is MONSTER. It's not about the typical Monster you find in sci-fi and video games. The expression of… — Rei Kawakubo
We long for simplicity and ordinariness. — Ursus Wehrli
Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness! — Iris Murdoch
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says… — John Shelton Reed
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the… — Luci Shaw
The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning… — Allan Kaprow
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer… — Peter York
I don't work at being ordinary. — Paul McCartney
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980,… — George Will
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing… — Tony Kushner
I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue… — Kurt Vonnegut
Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can… — Neal A. Maxwell
Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking… — Henri Nouwen
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not… — Richard Dawkins
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They… — Katherine Dunn

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