Find Beauty In The Ordinary Quotes

#1. I leave these speculations to others. It's quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn't have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.

Saul Leiter

#2. I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union.

Michael Gove

#3. I like to have a simple workplace.

Rick Riordan

#4. There was no surer way to lose the confidence of an audience, or a jury, than by letting them think faster than yourself, so that they became aware of what you were going to say before you said it.

Arthur Hailey

#5. You are rich in every way, and I am nothing but the reflection I see in your eyes.

Marek Halter

#6. I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

Rachel Joyce

#7. Humor is tragedy plus time.

Mark Twain

#8. But pain ... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold