Commonplace Quotes
249 quotes by 221 authors
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No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.
— Bill Brandt
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Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in…
— Peter Medawar
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the…
— John Fire Lame Deer
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Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our…
— Robert Menzies
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Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
— William Merritt Chase
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Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
— Jean-Henri Fabre
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I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered…
— Maxfield Parrish
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We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks…
— Charlotte Mason
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Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will…
— William Jewett Tucker
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Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going…
— Richard Halliburton
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
— Virginia Postrel
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Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in…
— Benjamin De Casseres
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The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few…
— Stanley Crouch
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Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence…
— Thomas Boswell
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In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic…
— William Saroyan
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the…
— Wayne Thiebaud
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Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
— Anna Katharine Green
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Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.
— Amy Waldman
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Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace…
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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