Common Quotes

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.