Commonplace Book Quotes

#1. John Locke first began maintaining a commonplace book in 1652, during

Steven Johnson

#2. For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.

Lemony Snicket

#3. I think to be an amazing actress, you have to be present, you have to be in the moment and not thinking about other things.

Tamera Mowry

#4. It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.

Elias Hicks

#5. The human heart must be a strong and resilient thing, Daphne decided when she awoke the following morning. She was surprised to find that she was no longer in the throes of wrenching heartbreak and pain. Instead, in a strange way, she felt as if she had been reborn.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#6. 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 ...

M.F.K. Fisher

#7. If one makes himself master of one vital book, he shall never become a commonplace man.

James Lowell

#8. 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.

Gary Saul Morson

#9. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.

Aldous Huxley

#10. I know it feels like it, but you're not alone in your pain. Shed it. Write a story. And we'll tell you that our pain is the same.

Ksenia Anske

#11. I'm tired of hearing so many lies, please someone would invent a chipset installed on my ear that would block lies!

Hamid Karima