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- Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another. — George Carlin
- 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
- I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer… — Saul Bellow
- But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each… — Thomas Perry
- A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who… — Mark Forsyth
- If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people — Mark Twain
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
- Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. — Samuel Butler