Commonplace Quotes

249 Commonplace quotes by 221 unique authors

This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in… — Ian Mcewan
The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him,… — Michael Chabon
We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring. — Oswald Chambers
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into… — L. Frank Baum
Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts. — Walt Disney
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. — Confucius
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. — Don DeLillo
It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The… — Amy Hempel
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of… — Lionel Shriver
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows… — Terry Pratchett
I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and… — Yukio Mishima
To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be… — George MacDonald
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales… — Patricia A. McKillip
Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster. — Dan Brown
A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of… — Carl Sagan
We pull on to the road, where our only company are the wandering cattle, who have become commonplace as traffic lights. Lethargic and listless, they… — Tom Hiddleston
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special… — Arthur Conan Doyle
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. — H P Lovecraft
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with… — Edgard Varese
When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and… — Washington Irving
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of… — John Keats

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