If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator. — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone. — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ. — Kyle Petty Copy Share Image
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“He dropped his pile of papers onto the desk and indicated the sheet on top. “Here is the common I nominate in… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical Law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
“Maybe I can't change the mind of those people that make up the lowest common denominator in this world, but I'll be… — L.C. Hibbett Copy Share Image
To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the… — Len Goodman Copy Share Image
“If there was anything approaching a common denominator, providing the American public with a foundation of shared civic values, it was those… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It's just a weird idea to me because each book is a complete universe unto itself, so why would I want this… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
Today it's fashionable to talk about the New Economy, or the Information Economy, or the Knowledge Economy. But when I think about… — Arthur Levitt Jr Copy Share Image
I don't see any point in having a public service broadcaster which attempts to compete with the commercial sector. Obviously part of… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Even though Wisconsin is the only place I want to be, there was a time when everything felt like it was imploding… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
A Klan member is not stamped from a standard cookie cutter. They come from all walks of life and various education levels… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“The parliamentary democracy we have adopted involves the British perversity of electing a legislature to form an executive: this has created a… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“At least there is calm at home? Hardly: food, gas, and electricity prices are at near all-time highs; a stagnant economy in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The defining characteristic of today's intellectual and media elite is that it swims merrily in a sea of fantasy. The world of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“To live, fiction must be read, and to be read it must be enjoyed. Why do so many people talk about the… — Trevor Cole Copy Share Image
“10,000 hour” rule. The rule’s premise is that, regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
“The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“I try to make myself realize that I have learned the difference between right and wrong. That there is such a thing… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell Copy Share Image
“A late arrival had the impression of lots of loud people unnecessarily grouped within a smoke-blue space between two mirrors gorged with… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Listen, Stavrogin: to level the mountains is a good idea, not a ridiculous one. I'm for Shigalyov! No need for education, enough… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Studying the history of our ancestors is instructive. I understand some of my parents’ struggles and sacrifices. I am acquainted with my… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The process of simplifying man's environment and rendering it increasingly elemental and crude has a cultural as well as a physical dimension.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The office was a treasure trove for those who delighted in the macabre. It was the Smithsonian of the Lowest Common Denominator.… — Kenneth C. Johnson Copy Share Image
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism. — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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