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
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace… — David Antin Copy Share Image
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“ commonplace , adj. ... But then I'll walk into the bathroom and find you've forgotten to put the cap back on… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual,… — Lester Beall Copy Share Image
The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one… — Stanley Crouch 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
Someday hopefully it won’t be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we’ve come…someday women… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing… — Samuel Smiles 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
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if… — Alan Cumming 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
I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise,… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“My hair, after all, turned out quite ordinary. My face was a commonplace face. I could pick a plain lock, I could… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa 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
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege.… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It… — Daniel Katz Copy Share Image
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations,… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee… — William Wordsworth 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
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
