With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.
Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.
But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For these pitiful creatures are concerned not only to find what one or the other can worship, but to find community of worship is the chie...
The man who said, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised." The man who expect...
Be yourself one hundred and one thousand percent. Everybody man, from the sides to the back to the middle to the sides, you might not even know people, but if you rock with Lil B music and respect me from the core, you should know that based means yo...
An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. He sees how much more valuable is one bu...
The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffe...
The kiss stayed there with no place to go, no sensory reserve that could absorb it and file it away as a common act of intimacy, a thousand times received. He knew what Anna was asking: whether you could love someone without habits.
[to Barton, while trying to get Barton to go to Hollywood] Garland: The common man will still be here when you get back. Who knows, there may even be one or two of them in Hollywood. Barton: That's a rationalization, Garland. Garland: Barton, it was ...
Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.
Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.
Common sense is only irritating in other people
Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
