Commonplace Quotes
249 Commonplace quotes by 221 unique authors
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; ...
— Charles Mingus
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Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is…
— Delbert L. Stapley
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The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out…
— Henry Adams
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples…
— Sally Mann
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The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor,…
— Elizabeth Drew
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It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing…
— George A Tice
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The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
— Goldwin Smith
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The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always…
— Winston Churchill
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Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
— Chuck Jones
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To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.
— Mel Torme
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It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each…
— Christian Lous Lange
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Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace…
— Arthur Machen
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Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
— Adoniram Judson
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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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