Common Quotes
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Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
Jack Horner
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
Dan Pink
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Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
Virginia Woolf
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The British use a system where the profits a corporation reports to shareholders is what they pay taxes on. Whereas in America we require corporations to keep two sets of books, one for shareholders and one for the IRS, and the IRS records are secret. For publicly-traded companies, the British system would tend to align the interests of the government with the interests of the company because the company wants to report the biggest possible profit. Though, all wealthy countries have high taxes as wealth requires lots of common goods, from clean water to public education to a justice system.
David Cay Johnston
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There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common
Callimachus
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Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.
Stephen Dunn
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Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article.
Daniel Starch
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As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.
Israel Zangwill
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They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.
Xunzi
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.
Joanne Rowling
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You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.
William Shakespeare
