The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell. — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be — Hjalmar Branting 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
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
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 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
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
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
I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color…… — Mark Nepo 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
All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that's a testament to what it means to really break the mold… — Scooter Braun Copy Share Image
Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more. — Louisa May Alcott 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
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next. — Laura Ingalls Wilder 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
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time.… — Douglas Fairbanks Copy Share Image
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by 'dysmorphic OCD thoughts,' being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
