Quotes About Commonplace

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

Mrs. Breedlove looked about her, and then realizing for the first time the effect she'd created among her guests, she tossed her head and said in a surprised voice, "I don't see why the idea shocks you so. A thing so commonplace as that! Actually, homosexuality is triter than incest! Doctor Kettlebaum considered it was all a matter of personal preference.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.

The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

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

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.

We look for visions of heaven," Oswald Chambers had written, "and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us." He

We look for visions of heaven," Oswald Chambers had written, "and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

Mi sueño es un sueño sin alternativas y quiero morir al pie de la letra del lugar común que asegura que morir es soñar

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

The word 'modern' is a cliche.

In my country, I am just a common man... a nobody.

Yet a sailor's life is at best, but a mixture of a little good with much evil, and a little pleasure with much pain. The beautiful is linked with the revolting, the sublime with the commonplace, and the solemn with the ludicrous.

He liked Vermeer, all those cool interiors spoke of an ordinariness he could relate to, a moment in time captured forever, because life wasn't about legions of Madonnas and water lilies, it was about the commonplace of details—the woman pouring milk from a jug, the boy sitting at the kitchen table, eating a chicken pie.

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

and just loving him with all her simple young heart and entirely believing in him, had made him, so completely commonplace before in all his utterances, suddenly—at least in the pulpit—sing. Was it acute, personal experience that one needed? Did one only cry out the truth really movingly when under some sort of lash, either of grief or ecstasy?

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

In forensic medicine it is amazing how often you find just one exceptional exception. Followed always by a defense barrister trying to make it sound commonplace

In forensic medicine it is amazing how often you find just one exceptional exception. Followed always by a defence barrister trying to make it sound commonplace.)