Common sense Quote by Theodora Goss Download Open image “Sometimes you have to follow your uncommon sense.” — Theodora Goss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common sense Sometimes Uncommon
Common Sense is not a common thing, for the common people…being uncommon holds it as a birth right… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Writing two stories [in the Thorn and the Blossom] about the same set of events that were complete stories in themselves, but also added up to a larger story. As I was writing them, I kept going back and forth, because something would happen in one story that would have to be reflected in the other story. And yet the… — Theodora Goss Copy Share
I've heard some readers saying they wished the story was longer, and I completely understand that desire - we all like to sink into… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“She drifted, feather-like, in tenuous radiance… Her gown, it seemed a thing made out of mist, As though the dewy air Had gathered in… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
The Thorn and The Blossom can be read from either side - you can choose whether to read it from Brendan's or Evelyn's perspective… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and asked if I could write a story for it. I was so intrigued! I immediately knew that it had to be a love story told from the points of view of the two main characters. Right away, I… — Theodora Goss Copy Share
The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction, and it's… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Spectacular cases are usually simpler, and less interesting, than they initially appear.” — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
If you look at the natural world, really look at it, it's always magical. — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers. — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I loved writing something people usually have - miscommunication, for example. Now that I've written a romance, I'm sure I'll write more: it's fascinating… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English literature. It… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Nature inspires me continually. Today, I can look out my window and see the entire world covered with snow. It's like Narnia under the… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no… — Kim Stanley Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
“It was true that common sense wasn’t her forte. It wasn’t that she was silly or stupid, but she heard so many more voices than the common-sense voice. That complicates matters. And sometimes the other voices were much more interesting and pressing than the common common-sense voice.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share
“The accident in your rearview mirror already happened. The one in front of you is still preventable. Pay attention.” — Nakia R. Laushaul Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As we have seen after every other [Donald] Trump controversy, this one only increased their enthusiasm for him. His supporters thought the idea of… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image