Quotes About Commonplace

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

I knew not which to believe, yet longed more and more to cross forever into the unknown land; for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.

What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!

En el principio era el Verbo y en el final el lugar común.

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

All truth is very ordinary.

The very triteness of it seemed to ensure its likelihood.

thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition.

On Virginia Woolf] Craving to be set free from her egomania by something or someone stronger and altogether dissimilar from herself, she speculated endlessly upon the unknown: and for her the unknown was frequently the commonplace.

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

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

It was turning out to be one of those days. The sort you got every day.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Sailors are the only class of men who now-a-days see anything like stirring adventure; and many things which to fire-side people appear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jacket out at elbows.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

Is 'tired old cliché' one?

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A morte, assim como o crime, é lugar-comum. (...)Por outro lado, a lógica é rara. Portanto, manter uma atitude mental lógica, especialmente quando enfrentamos a mortalidade, pode ser difícil. No entanto, é sempre na lógica, e não na morte, que devemos nos pautar.

A good showman is one who can dramatize the commonplace events of life and give them the interesting appearance of uniqueness.

she, like all others, had moments of commonplace, when to be least plainly seen was to be most prettily remembered