The habit of expression leads to the search for something…

What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him…

— Sydney J. Harris

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way…

— Giacomo Leopardi

To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of…

— C. Vann Woodward

Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed…

— Mike Crapo

It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because…

— Harry Partch

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In a sense nothing is commonplace, for everything exists visibly by means of light and color, and light and color are the most fundamental…

— David Parkhurst The Painter In Oil

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues…

— Alan Cumming

Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these…

— Albert Einstein

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...…

— Edward Eggleston

It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the…

— Pamela Anderson