I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
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
It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference… — Blaise Pascal 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
God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt 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
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there… — William Hazlitt 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
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines… — Eric Hoffer 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
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes… — Kingman Brewster, Jr 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
