Common Quotes

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.