Common Quotes

Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.

Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common.

That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't get in on the project.

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.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence.

It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past.

I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not.

In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

I really believe amendment " to make English our common and unifying language" is racist. I think it's directed basically to people who speak Spanish.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.

Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

We need to be fighting and rallying around the common American values. This is where the Democratic Party needs to learn and grow as we move forward.

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

We are all seeking to live up to normative standards that we recognize, even if we don't all recognize the same standards. This is something basic that we have in common despite our differences.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person, just like alcoholism. Family and friends also become co-addicted.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

I use the term "fool's gold white space" to highlight a common problem for innovation. People see a market that doesn't exist, and assume that one should exist.

Common Lisp is politics, not art.

When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.