Commonplace Quote by Chuck Jones Download Open image “Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace” — Chuck Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commonplace Disdain Esoteric Ordinary
“I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about deciding that we want to make a difference for other – our work becomes incredibly personal. Ordinary is no longer… — David Sturt Copy Share Image
“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much… — Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Copy Share Image
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The conventional accept and are frequently charmed by a certain unconventionality.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players.… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?' — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
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… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
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… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image