A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by… — Henry Taube Copy Share Image
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
When you're young and you first see the extent and depth of the world's hypocrisy, it's fun to go after it. But… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
