Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace. — William John Locke Copy Share Image
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace. — Frederick Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“That’s the problem, of course. At least, part of the problem. In Madison, regrets are as commonplace as wishes. And there’s no… — Chelsea Sedoti Copy Share Image
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow,… — Maxfield Parrish Copy Share Image
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The vision may dawn, the dream may waken,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
“Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
