Commonplace Quotes

249 Commonplace quotes by 221 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace. — Amy Waldman
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
Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her… — Rosalind Wiseman
When you love something, whether it's jam and cheese sandwiches or wearing your pyjamas as pants, you forget that it was ever anything other than… — Unknown Author
Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace. — Frederick Lewis Allen
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification… — Thomas Perry
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. — Phillips Brooks
It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a… — Daniel Katz
The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense… — Sean O'Casey
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery. — Jean Hugard
It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves… — Ralph Linton
As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to… — Trevanian
A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts,… — Mark Forsyth
In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It… — Dalai Lama
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be — Hjalmar Branting
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance… — Max Beckmann
To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it,… — Gerald Stanley Lee

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