Quotes About Commonplace

Bipedal movement is the skill of controlled falling, said Square. If it weren't so commonplace, it would seem miraculous - like much out here, to be truthful.

I love to take something very commonplace and reuse it in an original way.

Relaxing in the commonplace Asian insanity, the world became mine.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

I have friends who have children with various disabilities, and I was able to talk to them about just sort of the struggle and the extra effort that has to be put into very commonplace things.

little too undistinguished, a little

We live in a world of banal miracles.

I am not at all particular about things like hair styles and colors. Especially with women, changing their hairstyle or color is a bit too commonplace, don't you think?

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

I love to do subjects that are very common, relatable.

We tend to underestimate the power of banality.

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

We would like to gently expand the technique of intuition because it admits change that remains sincere to experience without depending on the past. Intuition reveals the negative space of habit, carving an urgent threshold from the commonplace.

Surely she'd heard voices like his, so low-pitched as to make every commonplace utterance seem of the deepest intimacy, every cliche a delicious secret.

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

obtaining a first-class education there in the commonplace libel that linked him inextricably to the crucifiers of Christ.

It is probably the hardest thing to understand: how even horror can become commonplace. . . You could stop expecting the most awful thing to happen, because it already had.

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

The human mind searches for cause and effect, always; and we all prefer the weird and thrilling to the dull and commonplace as an answer.

The commonplace deserves every bit as much attention as the sublime.

Print so easily spins a web of the commonplace over the fine outlines of life.