Commonplace Quotes

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Space is going to be commonplace.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.