Everyday Things Quotes

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

There's a whole load of stuff in life that is worth documenting. You see it every day but don't even notice.

What's normal? I think I'm normal... Maybe I'm abnormal because I get such a thrill from real life, just real life, everyday things.

Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em.

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

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.