Quotes About Ordinary

I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.

Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.

Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life. If you can take ordinary just walking in the street and you're confronted by something, that might change your day - it might inspire you.

It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.

I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.

Anyone who knows me will say I'm the most normal bloke you'll ever meet.

Bob is a normal man, just like any other man.

I like boring things.

I'm pretty boring really.

I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.

I live a very boring life.

I'm so boring.

I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

People's lives are boring.

I'm a very boring person.

I'm very boring.

I'm kind of boring.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.