Commonplace Quotes

249 Commonplace quotes by 221 unique authors

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. — Pablo Picasso
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a… — Ronald Reagan
I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone.… — Ben Silbermann
There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years… — Frederick Lenz
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there… — Penelope Fitzgerald
I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It… — Adam Brody
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace. — Grant Bowler
A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it… — G. H. Hardy
In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the… — Del Howison
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. — Jean-Francois Millet
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull,… — William Bolitho
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The universal subjugator, the commonplace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as… — Sydney J. Harris
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more. — Louisa May Alcott
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys,… — William Osler
I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic… — Guy Picciotto
With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art… — William Wordsworth
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid… — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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