Our observation of nature must be diligent our reflection profound and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason creative geniuses are not common.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh let's put that sentence there let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation and if it's someone I respect and who respects me even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
Language is like money without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
That common cold of the male psyche fear of commitment.
Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house the marriage and sometimes what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half and the rest doesn't get done.
I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.
Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage' as it is called is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work and it is a gamble.
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
Spending only what the country can afford rewarding savings encouraging independence supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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.