“It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.” WantBelieveSaidStatesSeemsLanguageAnimalDoorsDogMastersTheoryBabySpeechOrdinaryPhilosophicalObviousDenyMilkInfant Author:John Searle
“I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.” WritingLongTwoTogetherDoorsFitOrdinaryNot SureBack TogetherOrdinary LifePartition Author:Anne Tyler
“Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and vanishing palace that is this ordinary world and ordinary life. Jungian archetype would say the house is a figure for the experienced, experiencing self.” WorldSelfHouseRoomsDoorsFiguresOrdinaryWindowGorgeousPalacesOctoberOrdinary LifeArchetypeVanishingOrdinary World Author:Jane Hirshfield
“People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.” PeopleWantGuyNextDoorsStagePlanetsOrdinaryOrdinary Life Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.” BigsHappensBehindsDoorsDramaQuietOrdinaryClosed DoorsBehind Closed Doors Author:Joyce Maynard