“I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore.” PeopleMenFeelsWellsLooksArtWantedArtistDifferencesWonderCarOrdinaryPhotographerWrecksOrdinary Things Author:Walker Evans
“My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.” LightAgeWantedYoungImaginationChildhoodOrdinaryScaredActiveClosetsMy ImaginationYoung Age Author:Stephen King
“...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.” WantFirstsBelieveWantedJobsPresidentWifeOrdinaryBelieve In MeFirst Lady Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I am excited by this collaboration: this is the first time H&M involves a Fashion Director in a special project. This is the sign of an important evolution in fashion, and I am both thrilled and humbled to be the one chosen to lead it. I wanted to create precious accessories that are impossible to find. As a stylist I know accessorization is essential: it is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning an ordinary day into a fantastic fashion day” KnowsFirstsImportantWantedFunPiecesImpossibleSpecialFashionEvolutionDirectorsEssentialsProjectsOrdinaryFirst TimeExcitedChosenFantasticHaving FunCollaborationAccessoriesStylistOrdinary DaysPersonal Touch Author:Anna Dello Russo
“In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.” KindMadeWantedUsedSimpleCommonObjectsReadyLateOrdinaryDrawing Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary people, are able to change the development of things. That's why they have a very specific ironic sentiment towards power and the figures that represent it. I wanted to translate this irony into the cinematic language.” PeopleBelieveGovernmentAbleWantedLanguageFiguresDevelopmentOrdinaryTreatsDon't BelieveIronySentimentsIronicTranslateOrdinary PeopleCinematic Author:Andrey Zvyagintsev
“St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.” MenWantedLordEventsOrdinaryGreat Things Author:Josemaria Escriva
“I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations.... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations.” PeopleWantedBeautifulSituationBuildingOrdinaryEverydayPhotographAverageLandscapePortraitsOrdinary PeopleBeautiful PeopleDistressingEverymanBeautiful Landscapes Author:Ray Metzker
“I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.” PersonsMadeWantedLastsLosesEffortClassMiddleOrdinaryMiddle ClassAccentsCambridgeRemnantsGreat EffortCockneys Author:Peter Ackroyd
“The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side who are not dealing with the prison - that they can just pretend this is an ordinary Caribbean naval base. For them, it's: "Why are you making such a big deal out of the most notorious prison in the world?" It's like if people living near Buchenwald said they wanted to talk about the other lovely things in the region besides the camp.” PeopleIfsWorldSaidBigsWantedSidesDealsOrdinaryPrisonLovelyDelusionRegionsCampsBig DealCaribbeanNavalNotoriousLovely ThingsBuchenwald Author:Molly Crabapple
“I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to New York or Paris. But after that intense summer, I never thought that I wanted to live any place but Chicago. It also made me see what the stakes were in the civil rights movement. And it made me see what real hatred was like and the forms that it took. But it also made me understand how powerless ordinary people feel in their lives.” PeopleFeelsChildrenMadeRealMightWantedFormFantasyRightsNew YorkMovementSummerOrdinaryHatredIntenseCivil RightsParisSomedayChicagoStakesPowerlessOrdinary PeopleCivil Rights Movement Author:Sara Paretsky
“I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.” PeopleTryingSometimesGovernmentWantedMy OwnPerfectEconomyPolicyModelsOrdinaryReflectionComplexesConservativeStuckNarrativeOfficialsCategoriesForeign PolicyCanvasStereotypeFree MarketOrdinary PeopleContradictoryInadequateAmbiguousMarketersElected Officials Author:Barack Obama
“As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"” IfsWorldGivingSaidWantedOrdinaryShotsYeahScriptsAgentsKirkOrdinary World Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.” WantedOrdinaryPriestsParishParish Priest Author:Martin Scorsese
“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.” TryingEnoughWantedSimpleMorningAliveImagineOrdinaryShocking Book:The Hours: A Novel Source: The Hours: A Novel
“We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.” IfsKnowsLooksLongHardEnoughWantedCrazySweetOrdinaryLoudMoonlightHowlLike LoveOrdinary DaysLot Like Love Author:Pearl Cleage
“It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.” WantHumansChildrenLittlesEnoughWantedHouseLinesCommonOrdinaryConnectionsWoundedOrdinary Life Author:Ian Mcewan
“One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.” FeelsWantedLevelsOrdinaryMiracleTablesChairsEcstasyBrushes Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet pushed the wrong way.I sing of the shape a fallen body makes in the dirt beneath a tree, and I sing of an ordinary man who is wanted to know things no human being could tell him.This is the true beginning.” KnowsMenWayHumansBodyHandsWantedHuman BeingsTreeDogHairShapesOrdinarySkinsFallenDirtInkWrong WayVelvetOrdinary Man Book:The Dogs of Babel Source: The Dogs of Babel