Quotes of: Common-people Keyword

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.

Hunter S. Thompson

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.

Claire Cameron

Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Any Duchess Will Do

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 -

Alone

Good problems and mushrooms of certain kinds have something in common; they grow in clusters.

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

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.

Justine

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.

Killosophy

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

Rigning í nóvember

Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.

Revolt: The Secession of Mill Valley

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Sex & character

Quitters don’t gain what they have started working on; waiters don’t start what they could have gained. What is common there is failure.

Shaping the dream

Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.

Master of Stupidity

If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

Mere Christianity

Sometimes we need to look at everything going wrong in our lives and admit to ourselves, "I am the only common denominator here.

Single Dad Laughing

I got excited when I saw a midget, and then disappointed when I realized it was just a child. Those things are so common.

Sleepwalking is restercise

If man traveled as a centipede does, rather than with two self-interested steps at a time, more common ground would get covered.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Enthusiasm is that certain something that makes us stand out, pulls us out of the mediocre common places, and turns us into powerful influencers.

Selling Simplified