The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.
We're working with our neighbors Indonesia and Malaysia to fight terrorism in our own common seas.
The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
Commoner: It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.
Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.
