We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh,… — Brian Eno 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
The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all… — Ben Silbermann 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
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. — Vernor Vinge 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
It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin.… — William A. Henry III 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
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace. — William John Locke Copy Share Image
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are… — Helen Steiner Rice 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
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
For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
