Mandy Harvey Quotes

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.

It really, truly is sad when it's over, man. To not have that regularness, that familiarity. I love working in television because of that. It's like going to see your family every day.

Fabulous is familiarity.

I am very normal, and I keep all the things that I have since many years ago.

There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.

I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.

We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

I'm addicted to routine. I don't know if that's because I moved around so much as child - by the time I was 12 years old, I had lived in about 10 different places. But I like going to the theater at a certain time.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

The ordinary can be like medicine.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.

Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.