What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams 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
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
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
I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides,… — Lewis Mumford 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
“...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange… — John Irving Copy Share Image
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a… — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural. — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how… — Phyllis Logan Copy Share Image
What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
People used to think I was so strange because my toiletry bag used to contain so many grooming items and cosmetics and… — Nick Youngquest Copy Share Image
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each… — Thomas Perry 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
Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
