Quotes of: Common-interests Keyword

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

William H. Macy

Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Aphra Behn

People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes.

Amit Kalantri

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Agnes Repplier

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Abdus Salam

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings.

Ai Weiwei

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Barbara Amiel

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

Gordon Taylor

There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.

Todor Zhivkov

Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond.

Life

Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing.

Unarine Ramaru

The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.

Virginia Postrel

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.

William Henry Ashley

We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

Zong Qinghou

There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.

Abhishek Bachchan

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.

Tim Crouch

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

James Lovelock

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

Stefan Hell

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children d...

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to le...

The Golden Theme: How to Make Your Writing Appeal to the Highest Common Denominator

The quality common to the three experiences... is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasu...

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life