Kevin Henkes Quotes

I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.

There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.

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

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

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.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.

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

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

My life is pretty simple and normal.

I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

What a day-to-day affair life is.

Everyday life is pretty funny and pretty ridiculous and occasionally really great, though not all the time, and that's all part of it.

I am a regular kid. I like the simple things, and I always want to improve.

I'm a normal lad. I've always been quite humble, and I like simple things.

I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.

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.

The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.

The ordinary is the divine.