Everyday Quotes - page 2

In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. (Herbert Marcuse)
In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency.
Mark Spitz
Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.
Frank Luntz
The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
Joshua Ferris
In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
Christian Bale
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
Harold Geneen
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
Elizabeth Moon
It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.
Ajay Devgan
It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.
David Talbot
Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.
Elizabeth David
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for halloween everyday. (Gwen Stefani)
I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.
Leigh Steinberg
Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.
Matthew Ashford
For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.
Nick Clooney
I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
Otis Rush
The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
Sally Schneider
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind . . . cast-off and everyday clothing.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.
Dwayne Johnson
When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises.
Paulo Coelho
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas everyday, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.
Banksy
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. ... An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility. (José Ortega y Gasset)
I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
John D. Rockefeller
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
Wallace Stevens
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
H. P. Lovecraft
What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in the normal course of everyday life, the way this affects our feelings and the shape it takes in our memory; and it is to this that I have always applied myself.
Jean Dubuffet