Quotes of: Uncommon Keyword

Coyotes move within a landscape of attentiveness. I have seen their eyes in the creosote bushes and among mesquite trees. They have watched me. And all the times that I saw no eyes, that I kept walking and never knew, there were still coyotes. When I...

The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild

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

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Stephen King

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

Nancy Gibbs

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

Patrick O'Brian

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Literary Remains, Vol. 1

Earthquakes were extremely uncommon in this area. A dragon and a unicorn playing tag wasn't.

Myth Conceptions

You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11", you know, and playing in the National Football League.

Russell Wilson

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison

When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Confucius

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Norman Angell

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.

Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Samuel Butler

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

Norman Ralph Augustine

I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.

Valerie June