Uncommon Quotes

178 Uncommon quotes by 147 unique authors

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. — Robert Frost
Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe. — Robert Genn
Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps… — Mu Xin
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life… — Jewel
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places. — Tim Ferriss
Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor… — James Anthony Froude
Common sense is very uncommon. — Horace Greeley
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting… — Vin Diesel
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? — Charles Dickens
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we… — Herbert Hoover
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged… — Angelina Jolie
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. — Stephen King
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. — Orison Swett Marden
The common person fears to think beyond the common. — Bryant H. McGill
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. — Booker T. Washington
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us… — Booker T. Washington
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. — Niklaus Wirth
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than… — Martin Filler
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage. — Tullian Tchividjian
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense. — Lewis Carroll
Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best. — Lord Chesterfield

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