Commonplace Quotes

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

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

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.

Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with.

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

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 it, and at last the indifference because any one would.

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

To genius life never grows commonplace.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams . . . .

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.

... And God, who studies each separate soul, out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

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

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

Friends, we have a hero living among us.