Commonplace Quote by Michael Ende

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That…

— Michael Ende

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

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

“In a sense nothing is commonplace, for everything exists visibly by means of light and color, and light and color are the most fundamental…

— David Parkhurst The Painter In Oil

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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