Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
I read a lot about her. I read a lot of bios. I read bios about the royal family; I read this little novella called 'The Uncommon Reader,' which is a fiction: it's about Queen Elizabeth going on this library bus and choosing books and reading them, but it's so sweet.
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say 'Hello,' to gush, 'You know, your mother's brisket is just incredible; it's so good.' That was an inspiration for creating a love song in that well-worn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother.
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.
Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.
I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.
