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. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’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
Who Wrote These Ordinariness Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 30 Ordinariness Quotes, led by these top contributors: