Common Quotes
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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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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
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I am not against working with Russia in areas of common interests at the same time. We're smart enough, or we should be smart enough to have a dual track policy. You know, walk and chew gum at the same time.
Daniel Fried
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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
Seneca the Younger
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Nobody had told me I was common.
Ned Vizzini
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Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.
Susanne Langer
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
Soren Kierkegaard
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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
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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
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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
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My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
Dolly Parton
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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