Commonplace Quote by Horace

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

— Stephen King

Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

— Ovid

Actually there were [ in MacGyver] a lot of things about the original that focused on the character, but not too many people seem…

— Lucas Till

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

— Kevin Costner

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those…

— Raymond Carver

I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an…

— Darren Aronofsky

I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace,…

— Isadora Duncan

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

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

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

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