Quotes of: Common-things Keyword

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

P. J. O'Rourke

Let's listen to the people and find common ground to remove barriers to job creation.

Peter Roskam

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.

Ryan Lilly

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

Stephen Fry

I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.

Shakira

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Stephen Hawking

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Ken Hill

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

Karl Philipp Moritz

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is let's make this a true land of opportunity.

Laurene Powell Jobs

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

Lionel Jospin

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

Magnus Carlsen

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Marcus Garvey

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Samuel Butler

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Samuel Butler

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

Margaret J. Wheatley

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

Noam Chomsky

When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.

Sylvia Earle

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Cyril Connolly

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

William Billings

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

John Steinbeck