Top Commonplace Quotes

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

After another few days, I noticed I became annoyed whenever I would actually have to ask Asshole for something. How quickly the creepy becomes commonplace.

Commonplace Definition

(a.) Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

(n.) An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.

(n.) A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.

(v. t.) To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.

(v. i.) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-- a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone,...

Space is going to be commonplace.