Denominator Quotes
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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The common denominator is a love of music.
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Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
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I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's OK. Someone bright enough will get it, and that's who I write for. It's probably not the way to make million-sellers. What can I say? I won't apologize for trying to write for smart people.
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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
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The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
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The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.
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To me, religion is the Walmart of spirituality ... I mean it's prepackaged. Lowest common denominator. People just have to follow the present motions and rituals and rules. The don't have to think about how the words reconcile with their own hearts. Their own experience.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
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Have you ever seen a boring Andre Berto fight? Everyone needs to question Floyd, every time I fight it's exciting. Every time Pacquiao fights it's exciting. There's one common denominator that's making it (boring).
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At one level, happiness is an equation that has "needs met" as the numerator and "presumed total needs" as the denominator. One way to achieve temporary happiness is to invest more energy seeking to fill up the numerator. But another way, a more stable way, is to reflectively guard against the growth of one's denominator of needs, and to cultivate the habit of gratitude at the satisfaction of real and basic needs.
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Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.
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I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.
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Beauty is the lowest common denominator: I don't care what they say - every girl, every woman, wants to feel pretty and empowered and beautiful, within their own definition of beautiful. I love fashion, I love shopping, but I love beauty more because I love the science of it.
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.
