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
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace. — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace. — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I love to take something very commonplace and reuse it in an original way. — Mark Rober Copy Share Image
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
“My God, think of the opportunities and thrusts that lie ahead when one knows without a shred of doubt how commonplace and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
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
If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet… — Tony Blair 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
By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the… — Jane Leavy 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
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
Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
To do one's best in the face of the commonplace struggles of life, and possibly in the face of failures, and to… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words. — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent. — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
