ordinary world Quotes

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.

[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.

I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.

People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.

If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.

Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and vanishing palace that is this ordinary world and ordinary life. Jungian archetype would say the house is a figure for the experienced, experiencing self.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.