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The awful catastrophe of their quarrel had evaporated in a commonplace. He — Winston Graham

John Locke first began maintaining a commonplace book in 1652, during — Steven Johnson

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace. — Aristotle.

Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. (104) — Matt Ridley

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

I always liked fog, it lends such a soft, beautifying light to things that otherwise in the broad glare of day would be rude and commonplace. — Nellie Bly

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

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. — H.P. Lovecraft

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

The commonplace deserves every bit as much attention as the sublime. — Lynn Cullen

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

It is so commonplace," she drawled, "to be understood by everybody. — Ayn Rand

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

The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing. — Sakyong Mipham

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

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. — David Antin

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

Print so easily spins a web of the commonplace over the fine outlines of life. — John Dos Passos

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

My God, think of the opportunities and thrusts that lie ahead when one knows without a shred of doubt how commonplace and normal one is at heart! — J.D. Salinger

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

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? — John Keats

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

what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary. — Diane Arbus

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight. — Mason Cooley

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

Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men. — Solomon

There have always been men of all background and ethnicities on my father's job sites. And long before it was commonplace, you also saw women. — Ivanka Trump

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

The commonplace becomes exceptional when God is involved. — Judy Baer

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

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. — Horace

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

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace. — Neil Hayes

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. — Samuel Butler

One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones. — Saint Ignatius

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

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. — Ilka Chase

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

He supposed he was fascinated by that commonplace sense of history that anyone can feel glancing through the fresh news of ten or twenty years ago. — Stephen King

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

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. — Peter Redgrove

It is a commonplace that the Christian Heaven, as usually portrayed, would attract nobody. — George Orwell