In my experience, the romance novels written about BDSM have about as much in common with actual BDSM relationships as a child playing with a jump rope.
the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.
A blanket could be used to smother a fire—but not the fire that burns in my heart for you. Or perhaps that’s merely heartburn, and you’re just as common as a brick.
We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the narrative. 'Found' describes art created from common objects that are not normally considered art.
Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get mor...
Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.
From childhood's hour I have not been As others were - I have not seen As others saw - I could not bring My passions from a common spring -
It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren't used to seeing the broader picture in small things.
The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection
Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.
