Common Quotes

• The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Common
  • Temples
  • Sanctity

• What is common sense isn't common practice.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Practice
  • Common

• The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Different
  • Cities
  • All

• Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Common
  • Prompts

• 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
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Roles

• I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Political
  • Style
  • Process

• I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Hate

• I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.

  

  Terry Gross
  • People
  • Different
  • Kids

• The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Language
  • Common
  • Vulgar

• There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Common
  • Havens

• When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Travel
  • Process

• The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Common
  • Dysfunction

• The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Common
  • Despair

• It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Order
  • Faces
  • Assumption

• I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Common
  • Notice
  • Cartoons

• People who like what I do come in all shapes and sizes. Not sure what the common denominator is per se. Oh, it's meeee! But to be embraced by a progressive community means something to me and this one feels like home.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Home
  • Community

• We must find a common language and that common language for us is the key of E, English. You understand, right? In music, like in language, we must find common ground. When an orchestra tunes, that common ground is A.

  

  Ari L. Goldman
  • Language
  • Find
  • Common

• The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Decision
  • Lead
  • Leaders

• Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Democracy
  • Communication
  • Secrecy

• My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Simple
  • Philosophy
  • Common

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