These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I always cheerfully say, "Well, you know, the species is adapting, and whatever it needs to do, it'll do," but I do… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime.… — Fredric Wertham Copy Share Image
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet… — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams 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
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether… — Hilary Putnam 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
The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
“We never come out untouched from the spell of beauty. While we break away from the commonplace, upscaling and veering from the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination… — William James Copy Share Image
“It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and… — Raymond Carver 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
Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial… — Delbert L. Stapley Copy Share Image
What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones. — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with. — Fulton Oursler Copy Share Image
Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes.… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I would want us to start our quest to survive mass extinction by rethinking how we build cities. Cities should be commonplaces… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
