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Quotes About Everyday

God not only moves in mysterious ways, He moves in mundane days.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.
~ Charlie Huston
I just peed and forgot to take off my underwear.
~ Chelsea Handler
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.
~ Dita Von Teese
For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.
~ Sofia Coppola
Singing is something I do every day - not every other month. When I touch the mic, the same thing happens every time.
~ BJ the Chicago Kid
You don't hear many stories about people who grow up, have normal lives, pay taxes and pay bills, have mortgages and have kids. You hear stories about Billy the Kid for a reason.
~ Finn Cole
I feel like what motivates me is what would motivate the regular average person.
~ Rico Nasty
The whole of Hellas used once to carry arms, their habitations being unprotected and their communication with each other unsafe; indeed, to wear arms was as much a part of everyday life with them as with the barbarians.
~ Thucydides
It was not that her life was so tragic but that she found gloom more interesting than the everyday world.
~ Tom Drury
Poetry is nothing more than an intensification or illumination of common objects and everyday events until they shine with their singular nature, until we can experience their power, until we can follow their steps in the dance, until we can discern what parts they play in the Great Order of Love. How is this done? By fucking around with the syntax.
~ Tom Robbins
POETRY IS NOTHING more than an intensification or illumination of common objects and everyday events until they shine with their singular nature, until we can experience their power, until we can follow their steps in the dance, until we can discern what parts they play in the Great Order of Love. How is this done? By fucking around with syntax.
~ Tom Robbins
A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life.
~ Tom Robbins
There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey, and only the customs inspector employed by our own inhibitions restricts what it might bring back when it reenters the home country of everyday consciousness.
~ Tom Robbins
POETRY IS NOTHING more than an intensification or illumination of common objects and everyday events until they shine with their singular nature, until we can experience their power, until we can follow their steps in the dance, until we can discern what parts they play in the Great Order of Love.
~ Tom Robbins
populated the hills above it, taking small consolation in the fact that every day
~ Toni Morrison
Plenty should not be regulated to a paradisiacal state, but to normal, everyday, humane life.
~ Toni Morrison
Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things—tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids—are they not celebrating God's creation as well?" I
~ Tracy Chevalier
Ordinary life, not just virtual worlds, can be gameified. The
~ Kevin Kelly
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
~ Khalil Gibran
Yeah. I mean, I work in a coffee shop. People here don't even see it; it's like this boring job for them—but every day people say hello to me; every day I meet someone new, who is round and bright and—scattery, made out of parts, plans and fears and love and worry and I don't even know what. I don't know how to explain it. Random and meaningful and beautiful. I know that doesn't make sense.
~ Kij Johnson
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant 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 centre of his compass at his own home.
~ Kobo Abe
Our habitual, daily routines appear merely as common, everyday battles. People strive to protect themselves against the encroachments of others, dropping a Venetian blind over their faces and fastening it tight.
~ Kobo Abe
Annie's thing was to concentrate on the living. To honor every day & every person in some interesting way, because that's what you had, just that one moment. ... It 's important to honor a life, the way it was lived, the potential it had to grow & change. ... Saluting someone after they die can be done in a way that allows us to grieve & to celebrate.
~ Kris Radish