Quotes About Common

Rush is one of the common denominators in our band as far as a band that everybody loves and grew up with and was a big influence.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

At the end of the day, you can change coaches and managers and players, but if there's something intrinsic, something wrong, then you have to look at what the common denominator is, and, usually, you've got to look at the ownership because everything runs from there.

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.

The U.S. relationship with the Palestinians is a limited, one-way street for a number of reasons, one prominently being a lack of common moral values.

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform principle is almost synonymous with fairness. Uniform application of a detailed rule, on the other hand, will almost always favor one group over another. p. 34

displaced common law as the most extensive form of law in Britain and it is the most definitive of the four. It takes

Generally included under the generic heading of common law is the judicial interpretation of statute law.

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

fast-thinkers ... think in cliches, in the "received ideas" that Flaubert talks about--banal, conventional, common ideas that are received generally. By the time they reach you, these ideas have already been received by everybody else, so reception is never a problem.

du monde commun, à peu près universellement partagé, à la différence des mondes spéciaux, microcosmes fondés, comme l'univers de la littérature ou de la science, sur une rupture avec le sens commun, avec l'adhésion doxique au monde ordinaire.

I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.

The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

Voter fraud is common in America. Those who tell you otherwise are lying.

We have to really appeal to that sensible center.

The bands that we've found we have something in common with are bands like The National or Tegan And Sara, and I feel like that's because all three of us come from more alternative rock backgrounds.