Quotes On Commonness

#1. Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

Franz Grillparzer

#2. No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. I believe we have a double in every country. There's something about that that is probably a commonness that we don't make note of. That maybe there's only a cast for so many faces, and we live everywhere.

Richie Havens

#4. ... the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

Thomas Sowell

#5. It's important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show humanity the commonness of intuition.

S. Kelley Harrell

#6. Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

Mark Strand

#7. In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'

John Ridley

#8. Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.

Kenya Hara

#9. To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ.

Susan Vreeland

#10. He's meeting his girl now, a girl not much older than 14. A five-and-ten-cents store Cleopatra, a four letter word.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. And Christian compassion is another factor that made the West the best civilization in history. Let us examine it next.

Vishal Mangalwadi

#12. What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

Mary McCarthy

#13. That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.

Merv Griffin

#14. No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.

Max Stirner

#15. I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.

Katie Waitman

#16. Get your personal needs met, once and for all; if you have
unmet needs, you'll attract others in the same position.

Thomas Leonard

#17. I like to count myself as someone who doesn't follow that stuff and someone who's just trying to invent stories and characters and movies that are just funny and work because they're good and not because they're a slight variation that were hot a few months ago.

Scot Armstrong