Quotes About Commonplace

Tavainimene on tsivilisatsiooni nuhtlus. Aga tema on juba ebatavaliselt tavaline.

but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace. My cousins were both small-towners and outsiders; they had not grown up with Own Meany, who was so strange to them that he inspired awe - yet they were no more likely to fall upon him, or to devise ways to torture him, than it was likely for a herd of cattle to attack a cat.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

Libérese de esos lugares comunes! La creencia es una cuestión religiosa, pero la espiritualidad nace de nuestra conciencia, no importa quiénes seamos o quiénes creamos ser.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. … Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy.

I'm not sure if there's truly a name for this kind of place aside from it being anything but remarkable.

My life has become a boring pop song and everyone is singing along.

Moreover, I realised that life can be considered commonplace in spite of its appearing so beautiful at particular moments because in the former case one judges and underrates it on quite other grounds than itself, upon images which have no life in them.

Platitudes Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Real history is the commonplace, unrecorded.

Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. (104)

The tragedy of banality, produced by ordinary circumstances, and therefore all the more inescapable, remains to be written.

You take pains for me which are unnecessary; learned conversations are not at all in my way: I love to live at ease; and, in whatever is said, one must take too much trouble to become clever; it is an ambition which does not at all enter my mind. I find myself very well, mother, in being stupid; and I prefer having nothing but common-place talk to tormenting myself to say fine words.

The stories featured a heroine who was, like Beth, blessed with the gift of easy laughter. They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that quiet courage is worth more than the grandest derring-do. Thus "Aunt Dimity" was born, a heroine for the common woman.

We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

At the foundation of Jesus Christ's kingdom is the genuine loveliness of those who are commonplace.

The greatest experience open to man then is the recovery of the commonplace. Coffee in the morning and whiskeys in the evening again without fear. Books to read without that shadow falling across the page.