Commonplace Quotes

249 Commonplace quotes by 221 unique authors

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable. — Seth Godin
What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace. — Miuccia Prada
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really… — Alvin Langdon Coburn
Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and even interacted with… — David G. McAfee
Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget. — Ann Voskamp
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would… — Jim Elliot
Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. — Duff Cooper
Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all?… — Robert Adams
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely… — Pamela Anderson
They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to… — Booth Tarkington
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious",… — Swami Vivekananda
You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love. — Elizabeth of the Trinity
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. — John Masefield
Space is going to be commonplace. — Christa McAuliffe
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. — Vernor Vinge
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. — Christopher Hampton
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. — David Antin
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption… — Dorothy E. Denning
Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color.... But the water,… — Mark Nepo
I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient… — Paul McCartney
God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine… — Smith Wigglesworth
Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of… — Barbara Ann Kipfer

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