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Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
— Anthony Boucher
Commonplace things can be fascinating.
— Tove Jansson
It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.
— Ruth Rendell
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
— Christopher Hampton
We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.
— Oswald Chambers
Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
— Jean-Henri Fabre
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.
— Hjalmar Branting
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
— Don DeLillo
The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.
— Stephen King
He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn't make you live longer, but just made it feel as though you were living longer.
— John Connolly
You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.
— Elizabeth Of The Trinity
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
— William Bolitho
You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.
— Ronald Reagan
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
— Anne Sullivan
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.
— D.H. Lawrence
Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.
— Frederick Lewis Allen
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
— Edward Weston
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
— Phillips Brooks
When I chose you, I didn't want the commonplace - I didn't want a 'partner' - I wanted a shrine ...
— John Geddes
It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.
— Richard J. Foster
Commonplace they might be, but the accumulation of these memories has led to one result: me.
— Haruki Murakami
Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.
— Robert H. Goddard
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
— Blaise Pascal
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
— Louisa May Alcott
A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.
— Margaret Oliphant
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
— Kenneth Rexroth
There are strange red depths in the soul of the most commonplace man.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Look up ... and see them.The teaching stars,
beyond worship
and commonplace tongues. — Dorothy Dunnett
It is commonplace, and true, to point out that animals are happier than people because they live entirely in the present.
— Linda Bender
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
— John Philip Sousa
It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
— Jonathan Kozol
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.
— Gail Caldwell
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.
— Jean-Francois Millet
Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain. — J. Aleksandr Wootton
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
— Jessica Lange
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.
— Aldous Huxley
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
— William Hazlitt
To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spiritual simplicity.
— Norman Vincent Peale
They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.
— Susan Glaspell
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally ...
— Marie Bashkirtseff
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.
— Mel Torme
That won't do with a girl like Princess. It is too commonplace, too devoid of interest and uncertainty.
— Mary Greenway McClelland
Prompted by the sky, which seemed to make it all a little futile - what they said, what they did - she said something perfectly commonplace again.
— Virginia Woolf
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
— Alexander Pope
To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm.
— Salman Rushdie
My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention
— Charles Dickens
What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?
— Vladimir Nabokov
Joseph had regained his composure by now. Evidently, once you accept that your wife slept with God, extraordinary events seem sort of commonplace.
— Christopher Moore
We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.
— Oswald Chambers
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Indeed, it is almost a rule that the more simple and commonplace something is, the more difficult it is to understand it.
— Jack Henry Abbott
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
— Vladimir Putin
If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs.
— Lauren Willig
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
— Samuel Butler
Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly.
— John Furia Jr.
Whatever evil you let ride becomes commonplace, eventually. Problem is, it's easier to get used to it than carve it out.
— Steven Erikson
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
— George Carlin
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
— Adoniram Judson
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity
— William Arthur Ward
Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
— Gertrude Atherton
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with.
— Fulton Oursler
If one makes himself master of one vital book, he shall never become a commonplace man.
— James Lowell
Crime is a commonplace, existence is a commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.
— William John Locke
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
— Mark Twain
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
