Commonplace Quote by Chuck Jones

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the…

— Chuck Jones

It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values…

— Ludwig von Mises

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and…

— Camille Paglia

When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too…

— Paul Brunton

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level,…

— Dalai Lama

“The key to the world is the key to your self and the key to yourself is the key to the world.”

— Iva Kenaz

I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night…

— Patton Oswalt

I know the music I hear and what I want. But sometimes I have to let that go and not try to be so…

— Van Hunt

With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An…

— Bill Milkowski

I have my own cosmology that's kind of like an esoteric mix of a lot of different things that work for me and that…

— Weyes Blood

It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural…

— Jonathan Lethem

The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There…

— Maynard James Keenan