My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet… — Tony Blair 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
It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may… — Toyotomi Hideyoshi Copy Share Image
Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by 'dysmorphic OCD thoughts,' being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What… — Susan Estrich 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
The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing. — Sakyong Mipham 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
I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out… — Lancelot Law Whyte Copy Share Image
Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself… — Solomon Copy Share Image
A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which… — Henry Giroux 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
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious. — Stephen King 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
