Common Quotes
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The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
Carson Grant
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In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is a common cause of bad backs - and bad shots - for golfers of all levels. In addition to resting, I worked with my trainer, Joey Diovisalvi, on strengthening the weaker lower-body muscles that contributed to my overactive hips and back pain.
Rickie Fowler
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What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?
William Butler Yeats
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Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.
William Francis Buckley
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Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.
Morley Safer
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My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.
Cyril Ritchard
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There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
Horace
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The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
Paul Newman
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Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
David Samuels
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Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
William John Locke
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When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
Simon Callow
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He's alone, You're alone, that's more than enough to have in common. What else do you want?
Eva Heller
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Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.
Willie Parker
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Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
Heraclitus
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I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Nicholas Sparks
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No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.
Rudolf Arnheim
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A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
Richard Aldington
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Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
William Wycherley
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There comes a point, in any kind of, whether it's in your family discussions or business or whatever, where you finally have to get over the making of the points and now let's see if we can find common ground.
Jon Kyl
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I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.
Richard Wagner
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Common sense is not always common practice.
Stephen Covey
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Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!
Sun Myung Moon
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It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.
Stephen Fry