Quotes About Commonplace

That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

Viata e insa atat de banala,incat literatura trebuie sa se ocupe de lucrurile care ies din comun.

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

All plots are cliche.

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.

To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.

Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.

Oh, how daily life is.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.

When they parted it was in the ordinary way: neither had an impulse to say anything special. The whole day had been ordinary. Yet it had never come before either of them, nor was it to be repeated.

The commonplace may be understood as a reduction of the exceptional, but the exceptional cannot be understood by magnifying the commonplace.

often thought that you had just the kind of commonplace gifts that a host of commonplace people want to find at their service. An old servant of mine who lives in Mortimer Street

The most ordinary things of life are extraordinary.

I think that it is daily life which is the great event, the true "reality".… My greatest ambition is to do something new and striking using the banal and commonplace to show an aspect of daily life as if one were seeing it for the first time.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

Good-evening, Miss Stirling. Nothing could be more commonplace and conventional. Any one might have said it. But Barney Snaith had a way of saying things that gave them poignancy. When he said good-evening you felt that it was a good evening and it was partly his doing that it was. Also, you felt that some of the credit was yours.

Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to birth attracted and formed by the magic of the stage itself, which has indeed more right to live here than you, since it is much truer than you -- if you don't mind my saying so?

Palavras vulgares; mas há vulgaridades sublimes, ou, pelo menos, deleitosas

ADVERSARIA  (ADVERSA'RIA)   n.s.[Lat. A book, as it should seem, in which Debtor and Creditor were set in opposition.]A common-place; a book to note in. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria.Bull'sSermons.

one ignored the mundane at one's peril. After