It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and… — Jean Hugard 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
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its… — Alice Duer Miller 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
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
I think it's becoming more commonplace, not just for sportsmen, but for all guys to take care of themselves. You can see… — Nick Youngquest Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we… — Thomas Boswell 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
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
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace. — Mel Torme 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
The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained… — Terry Pratchett 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
Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest… — Robert Adams 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
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
Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When you love something, whether it's jam and cheese sandwiches or wearing your pyjamas as pants, you forget that it was ever… — Elisha Lim 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
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
