Dailyness Quotes & Sayings

It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine. — Darryl Pinckney

To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold. — Zadie Smith

People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard. — Patricia Leavy

It was in its strangeness and in its familiarity an illustration of someone else's life going on in its own way, steeped in itself, its own business, its own dailyness, its own particular sorrow or joy, all of it more or less predictable — Alice McDermott

It seemed to me that winter was the time for love, not spring. In winter the habitable world was so much contracted; out of that little shut-in space we lived in, fantastic hopes might bloom. But spring revealed the ordinary geography of the place; the long, brown roads, the old cracked sidewalks underfoot, all the tree branches broken off in winter storms, that had to be cleared out of the yards. Spring revealed distances, exactly as they were. — Alice Munro

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part! — Robert Knepper

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. — Edgar Allan Poe

How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers. — Edwin Way Teale

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up. — Grover Cleveland

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. — George Eliot

Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is, he thought. — Ernest Hemingway,

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them. — Elizabeth Prentiss

I tried to look earnest, but I only succeeded in looking pathetic. — Henry Miller

People who don't like doing things together probably ... well probably shouldn't get married. — Luanne Rice

If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj