Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace. — Frederick Lewis Allen 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
And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. — Norman Rockwell 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
we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself… — Solomon Copy Share Image
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition… — Thorstein Veblen 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
I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you… — Eugene Delacroix 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
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
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
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
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
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished. — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
