I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace. — Grant Bowler 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
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler Copy Share Image
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing -… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next. — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The vision may dawn, the dream may waken,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live… — Loren Eiseley 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
They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow. — Ralph Nader 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 very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell. — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
... And God, who studies each separate soul, out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey 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
