Ordinary World Quotes

• I have no time for things that have no soul.

  Charles Bukowski

  Soul, Understand Me

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  Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

  Charles Bukowski

  Soul, Dimensions, Madness

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• I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

  Anais Nin

  Ecstasy, Tempo, Neurotic

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• I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

  Anais Nin

  Want, Proportion, Disregard

  Diary entries, March 25, 1933.

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• But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

  David Eddings

  Possible And Impossible, Law, Two

  David Eddings (2010). “Pawn Of Prophecy: Book One Of The Belgariad”, p.53, Random House

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• Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

  Erica Jong

  Crazy, People, Exceptional

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 13, 2012

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• You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Creative, Virtue, Vicious

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• 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?

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Hard Times, Morality

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• 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.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Doors, Self, House

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

  Ted Kooser

  Beautiful, Way, Devices

  Ted Kooser (2007). “The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press

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• [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.

  Eudora Welty

  Strange, Accepted, Familiarity

  Eudora Welty, Pearl Amelia McHaney (2009). “Occasions: Selected Writings”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Couple, Fun, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Heart, Rocks

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Party, Character, Nuts

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Giving, Scripts, Agents

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Character, Thinking, Differences

  Source: collider.com

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• Artful without being pretentious, well-made without being staid, Trey Moody's investigations of our weird and ordinary world are a little off, by which I mean that they're onto something. Read 'em and be crept into.

  Graham Foust

  Mean, Ems, Littles

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• When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.

  Anne Michaels

  Gratitude, Sweet, Book

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• I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.

  Kate Forsyth

  Thinking, Magic, Fiction

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• 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.

  Peter Straub

  Jumping, Pigs, Would Be

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• This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything, your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Eye, Creating

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• Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!

  Peter Straub

  Writing, Lucky, Able

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• My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been forever left behind; that knowledge is indeed a frightening affair; that the means of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for him; and that he must adopt a new way of life if he is going to survive. The first thing he ought to do, at that point, is to want to become a warrior.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mean, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (1971). “A Separate Reality.Further Conversations with Don Juan”

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

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Thinking, Extraordinary Person, Would Be

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.

  Nancy Mairs

  Self, People, Satisfaction

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