Quotes of: Common-things Keyword

With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One of the things I find very interesting in our current debates is this concept of who creates wealth. That wea...

Elaine Bernard

Sherri Ann Cabot: [Discussing her 80 year old husband who's 44 years her senior] Leslie and I have an amazing relationship and it's very physical, he still pushes all my buttons. People say 'oh but he's so much older than you' and you know what, I'm ...

Best in Show

Ouch! I feel bitch slapped-- Matt Carter

Common Descent

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

Nancy Pearcey

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Peter R. Grant

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Robert Fripp

Stop trying to explore what is different about yourselves and explore the commonality you have instead.

Réné Gaudette

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

Robyn Hitchcock

I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element.

Shakira

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

T.K. Naliaka

Let's just say that I don't think our show has very much in common with the book any more.

Kristin Davis

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

Ken Livingstone

Time is ubiquitous in our lives and is so common that we seldom even think about it.

Khalid Masood

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

Lytton Strachey

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Marcus Aurelius

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Robert Anton Wilson

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

Ruby Wax

Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.

Norman Borlaug

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sidney Altman

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

Maynard James Keenan