Martin Parr Quotes

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

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal.

What a day-to-day affair life is.

I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.

I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

We're as average as everyday's wash.

We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life.

I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.

My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.

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

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.

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

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

I go from day to day and game to game.

We live very ordinary lives.

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

I have very strongly this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

I think anyone that's in the same building or the same place for a really long period of time, some parts of it become routine.