I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
When you take away everything else, 'Star Wars' is really an underdog story. Even Luke came from humble beginnings, and he ended up being one of the most powerful Jedi out there.
Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.
Because,” he said quietly as she stood up, “until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden.” Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. “What is it now?” “Heaven.
I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.
I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.
David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary.
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .
You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.
I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.
