Top 1200 Everyday People Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I can pretty much name and rattle off the genus and species of all the bugs you see in everyday life.

One thing that Americans do at this time also, though, is let's commit ourselves, just everyday American people Joe Six-Pack, hockey moms across the nation I think we need to band together and say, never again. Never will we exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement of human potential through virtuous practice. The neo-cons' crucial insight is that public signals through law, custom and tradition are the key to getting people to behave well. And that is a Jewish insight.

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

For sheer sensory enjoyment, few everyday experiences can compete with a good cup of coffee.

You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.

When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

Learning is about looking at things differently, making your life a little better everyday.

The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

Now that I've moved to Mumbai, I should perhaps get a horse. It'll be a nice escape from my everyday life.

Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.

I'm still young and everyday I want to learn more. I feel I am beginning to find myself.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

My parents keep telling me go and achieve my goal and make them proud everyday.

Being a teenager, it's so hard to find foundation that's good for your skin for everyday wear.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

You don't realize until afterwards that if you feed the subconscious, it will bleed into your everyday life.

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman.

As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.

But, perfection is something that is a constant thing you need to achieve. It is not that you have achieved it and it's gonna stay. It's everyday hardwork.

There's no Limit for me, and no limit I'm willing to put on myself where doing what I love is concerned. I was born to do what I am doing now, and just the fact that I'm able to be having a career in music and doing what I love everyday, and reaching the ears and hearts of people is for me in a sense. Success and yes... a dream come true.

I'll tell you that the dog whistle politics is badly missing the mark. Because, you know, as I've been speaking about it, sure, I've got some racists who come and complain about it. That happens. Right? But I have been absolutely overwhelmed - absolutely overwhelmed - by the number of everyday people who have contacted me with one simple question: what can I do to help?

The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.

Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'

Keep your eyes out for #? magical moments, they're everywhere! Live with passion today and everyday!

I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.

Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.

Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.

All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.

When you start hanging out with Jennifer Lopez and Bill Clinton, you can't expect to remain an everyday person.

There's nothing more creative I'll ever do in my career than trying to make an hour of TV everyday.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.

Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

Outwardly seeing how your music effects culture and everyday life, is amazing.

Everyday classroom teaching is not what children will remember, but how you made a difference in their lives.

It sounds like a cliche but there are no shorts cuts. You have to be very dedicated and challenge yourself everyday to be better.

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.