Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
I've always loved three-sided patios. Courtyard plans are very common, but it's rare that it has one side open.
When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.
The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.
I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.
The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
If you meet a number of failures the causes of which are not known, look for something that is common for each failure and that is never present when there is a success.
How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.
