Quotes of: Common-things Keyword

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

Zong Qinghou

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

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

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

The Canterville Ghost

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

Emily of New Moon

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it.

Bruce Lipton

On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

Virginia Postrel

Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.

Memories With Maya

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

A Little Book in C Major

We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.

Rebecca

Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.

Rare People and Rare Books

Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

King Felipe VI

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

The Art of War

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

George Eliot

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

George Eliot

Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.

Miguel Nicolelis

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

Olivier Theyskens

'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.

Penn Jillette