Quotes About Commonplace

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

V?i tâm tr?ng h? h?i, Erika nói suy cho cùng b?n ch?t c?a tình yêu c?ng chính là c?c ?i?m c?a s? t?m th??ng.

Không h? ghê t?m mà v?i tâm tr?ng h? h?i, Erika nói suy cho cùng b?n ch?t c?a tình yêu c?ng chính là c?c ?i?m c?a s? t?m th??ng.

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

Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

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

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize him or not to recognize him, but all the more fascinatingly because of that, all the more compellingly and hauntingly.

Hayat sahiden ya?anmaya de?meyecek kadar küçüklükler ve baya??l?klarla dolu!

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.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

she sat opposite, watching me (as I thought) and endeavouring to sustain something like a conversation — consisting chiefly of a succession of commonplace remarks, expressed with frigid formality: but this might be more my fault than hers, for I really could not converse.

I like the people. They have imagination to take them out of the commonplace, to forget the defeats of reality and feed on the triumphs of dreams.

Sometimes stars do fall to earth. It was true. They did and then became commonplace like the rest of the dirt on the planet. His star was one of a kind. He would never allow her to be like any other. Never allow her to be common or sullied. No, her place was in the sky. With her family. With her stinking pet wolf. Never with him. Have a nice life, princess.

In real life, I am alarmingly boring.

The sublimest caution arises from the discovery and pursuit of the commonplace, for when that proves to be false haven then all anchorage is lost. But even when true, it is an insecure base for further exploration.

Even given my limited knowledge of the vast span of Terran history, terrible crimes seemed terribly commonplace and didn't usually lead to enlightenment.

Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

Aristotle and Plato would have dismissed this kind of obsequious language as unworthy of free men. By the seventeenth century, however, it had become commonplace. It was also a lie.

Prototype frames. Among the most important of the commonplace frames are the prototype frames, where you reason about a category on the basis of some subcategory (real or imagined). The best known is the social stereotype. For instance, both conservatives and progressives use stereotypes of immigrants, though very different ones.

Part of the artist's job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.