The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing. — Sakyong Mipham 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
They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words. — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent. — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished. — William Merritt Chase 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
I found it really astonishing that undocumented migrants were kidnapped so routinely, that it was such a commonplace part of the journey… — Sarah Stillman 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
“Even hackneyed and commonplace maxims are to be used, if they suit one's purpose: just because they are commonplace, every one seems… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
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
We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty… — Charlotte Mason 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
Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the… — Alexey Brodovitch 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
Problems associated with the menstrual cycle are now commonplace. The majority of teenagers whom I have seen suffer problems such as PMS,… — Mark Starr Copy Share Image
We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is… — Lewis Thomas 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
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by… — Henry Taube Copy Share Image
Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them… — Remy de Gourmont 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
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
“I'm sorry." "Sorry? For what?" He straightened and moved a bit closer, sounding honestly puzzled. "I am not much of a conversationalist,… — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
