Quotes About Everyday

Yet even Christians who are dismissive of art continue to use it. Doing so is inescapable. Every time we build a sanctuary, arrange furniture in a room, or produce a brochure, we are making artistic decisions. Even if we are not artists in our primary vocation, there is an inescapably artistic aspect to our daily experience.

they were about as distinguished as packets of Persil.

Don't scorn your life just because it's not dramatic, or it's impoverished, or it looks dull, or it's workaday. Don't scorn it. It is where poetry is taking place if you've got the sensitivity to see it, if your eyes are open." --Philip Levine, describing what he learned from William Carlos Williams, via NPR

I get to reach out to over a million people ever yday on Twitter and enlighten them with what I feel about cyberbullying, and I - what I think you can do to avoid it, and the places you can visit online that are safe.

Subodh Gupta works because his artistic vocabulary is firmly rooted in the vernacular of everyday India.

The overflow of big money in politics drowns out the voices of everyday people. That is part of the conundrum in this country: The more money you have the more speech you have. That leaves everyday people out of the equation.

In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

I'm not a person that sets a long-term goal. My goals are on an everyday basis.

I live in dungarees, and I love denim - I wear denim shirts a lot.

Mum always had a camera with her on her shoulder, so I just thought everyone took pictures. Sometimes shed set her camera for us and wed take the pictures.

I'm addicted to showing people what they don't get to see, as far as the everyday lifestyle of an NBA player.

I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.

I think I'll be around as long as there is a market for simple, basic, non-intimidating food.

As encountering each moment with awareness becomes more familiar to you, you will find that it is not only possible but even enjoyable to be in the moment, even with ordinary tasks such as washing the dishes. You come to see that you don't have to rush to get through with the dishes so that you can get on to something better or more important because, at the moment that you are doing the dishes, that is your life.

How does these things happen? How do we go mad in small ways and calmly work the madness into our everyday little exercises...? Little by little...

He'd inspired Perry to devise a theory of how all religion worked: Along comes a leader who's uninhibited enough to use everyday words in a new and strong and counterintuitive way, which emboldens the people around him to use this rhetoric themselves, and the very act of using it creates sensations unlike anything they're used to in everyday life;

Michael had gotten sick amid the ruins of a demolished system. The wall dividing many things—including the asylum and the street—had come down while we were growing up. So had the distinction between severe mental illness and what Freud called "the psychopathology of everyday life.

Ojalá vivas todos los días de tu vida!

May you live every day of your life

With David, I sometimes sigh, "How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my hear? How long will my enemy triumph over me?"1

In this world, beauty is so common.

In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.

The Islamic view of sexuality, then, is a total one. Its aim is to integrate the sexual as everyday experience. Islam is a recognition, not a misapprehension of sexuality.

There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.