Critics seem to forget that every love story is different…

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace…

— Lewis Thomas

DON't level yourself to others, because too much comparison will NOT make you a better person, learn to appreciate yourself, cause you are different…

— Anonymous

The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with…

— Isabel Allende

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

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

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

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

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

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