Logo
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowi

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. – Jos

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Ordinary
category

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. – R. D. Laing

Category:
Ordinary

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Ordinary

I wouldnt say Im normal. But Im relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f— out of me. – Gillian Anderson

Category:
Ordinary

Normal is not something to aspire to, its something to get away from. – Jodie Foster

Category:
Ordinary

Random Quotes

I found out about reviews early on. Theyre mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. Thats probably why Im less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason. – Barry Hannah

Category:
sad

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. – Charlie Chaplin

Category:
great

I think Im a really hands-on mom. – Brooke Burke

Category:
mom

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. – P. G. Wodehouse

Category:
best