You Are The Common Denominator Quotes

#1. Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.

Karen Salmansohn

#2. If you keep finding yourself in the same situations, the Universe is prompting you to confront self! YOU are the common denominator.

Sanjo Jendayi

#3. There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.

Edmund White

#4. Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Nick Hornby

#5. What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

Jim DeMint

#6. Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

Stewart Butterfield

#7. The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

Cristina Saralegui

#8. It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

Ray Romano

#9. All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

#10. Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

#11. America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language.

James Traficant

#12. Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#13. ... the only common denominator in all of your failed relationships is you.

Richard Labonte

#14. The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.

Mel Brooks

#15. Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

Frank Spotnitz

#16. If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

Mary Badham

#17. Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

Ernst Haas

#18. Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.-Rumi

Ahmet Umit

#19. You are the only common denominator in everything that has happened to you in life, be it good or bad. To learn/grow from these experiences, you must accept the role you played in each of them.

A.C. Anderson

#20. It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.

Frederick Rolfe

#21. It always amazed Vimes how Nobby got along with practically everyone. It must, he'd decided, have something to do with the common denominator. In the entire world of mathematics there could be no denominator as common as Nobby.

Terry Pratchett

#22. I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

Len Goodman

#23. A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.

Michael Moore

#24. The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.

Arthur Koestler

#25. Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and it doesn't occur to them that intelligent people might find this religious business worth living their lives by.

Doris Betts

#26. The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

R.A. Lafferty

#27. Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

Randall Jarrell

#28. Because he thinks Facebook is the lowest common denominator of social discourse. Though he does like to talk about social media as a vehicle for constructing and performing identity. Whatever the hell that means.

Becky Albertalli

#29. I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

Barbara Park

#30. English should not stoop to embrace the lowest common denominator. Rather, society should step up and grant the language the respect it deserves.

Terry Fallis

#31. If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

#32. For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses' want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies want to give the masses what they want.

Steven Johnson

#33. Is there a common denominator? I wonder. You know, if there is, I should be inclined to say it is vanity.

Agatha Christie

#34. To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.

Florence King

#35. There is a brotherhood within the body of believers, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the common denominator. Friendship and fellowship are the legal tender among believers.

J. Vernon McGee

#36. We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.

Albert Mohler