Commonplace Quotes

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

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

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

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

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.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

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