Quotes About Commonplace

I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and there my vanity steps in...

PLATITUDE. An idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches.

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.

There are times when it requires a high courage to speak the banal.

She's been at his apartment in Brooklyn, complaining about his couch being covered in cat hair. Bryan had taken her face in his hands and said, " You know what your problem is, Smita? You focus on the cat hair. Try focusing on the cat. Perhaps that's what love was--an embrace of the commonplace? Perhaps that's where wisdom lay--in recognizing the grandeur of everyday domestic life?

I think it's important to note that, you know, we live in a time where everything's changed. The idea of blended families is now not foreign to anybody, it's actually quite commonplace.

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.

You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy.

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.

if one goes through Francis Meres's list of the best English dramatists in 1598 one quickly discovers that commonplace books and early drafts of published plays don't survive for any of these popular Elizabethan playwrights.

That is an expression, Sir John, said Marianne, warmly, which I particularly dislike. I abhor every common–place phrase by which wit is intended; and setting one's cap at a man, or making a conquest, are the most odious of all. Their tendency is gross and illiberal; and if their construction could ever be deemed clever, time has long ago destroyed all its ingenuity.

The others are all common mouths chattering, empty heads like wooden whistles blowing common tunes.

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

Wealth is commonplace, but wisdom is rare.

Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

In everything near and comprehensible he had seen only what was limited, petty, commonplace, and senseless. He

Murder was apparently too common-place in the big city to attract much notice. Poor Luther, thought Lucy, as she headed back to the hotel. Even in death he was only a big fish in a small pond.

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.