"I want to look at life - at……" — Christopher Fry
"I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."
More Commonplaces Quotes
- Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. — Norman Rockwell
- My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are… — Harry Houdini
- An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt
- Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the… — Felix Frankfurter
- Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
- One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders… — Lewis Mumford
- Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces.… — Miguel de Unamuno
- The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. — Gertrude Atherton
- Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem… — Steve Leveen
- Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. — Eric Hoffer
- The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another… — John Stuart Mill
- My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me… — Arthur Conan Doyle