A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
Common Quotes
I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
I want the folks to see me sitting in the same kind of seat they sit in, eating the same popcorn, peeing in the same urinal. (Explaining his choice to sit “among the fans” when involved in management of the Texas Rangers, Time Magazine interview, 1989)
Salt of the Earth.
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.
The lack of pretension extends to the way we dress. Our jeans are dirty not because they’re rarely washed, but because we work with grease, dirt or steel. That ground-in grime is a badge of a day’s work well done… Most Red Americans can’t deconstruct postmodern literature, give proper orders to a nanny, pick out […]
Whatever is common is despised. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.
What a commonplace genius he (Thomas Hardy) has; or a genius for the commonplace, I don’t know which.
