My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

The common question that gets asked in business is 'why?' That's a good question but an equally valid question is 'why not?'

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

It is clearly better that property should be private but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense without the grace of genius can deal with successfully.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes married men are the best binders in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Science is simply common sense at its best that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors nor even in its newspapers or inventors but always most in the common people.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family living in the country leading an idyllic life.

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility about beauty and how to make gumbo.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility you are not attractive - you are leaking.

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

Certain kinds of speed flow intensity density of attacks density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is I think easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude a common language.

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity the dread of doing what has been done before.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Like music and art love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.