Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
~By Samuel Butler ~
I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
~By Michael King ~
Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.
~By Tom Coburn ~
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Common sense often makes good law.
~By William O. Douglas ~
I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
~By Kim Campbell ~
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
~By Robert Graves ~
I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
~By Abdus Salam ~
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.
~By Li Peng ~
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
~By Elihu Root ~
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
~By Alexander Pope ~
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
~By Winston Churchill ~
So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.
~By Talib Kweli ~
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
~By David Antin ~
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
~By William Gilbert ~
It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
I have confidence in people's basic common sense.
~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
~By Gary Burton ~
What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.
~By Dee Hock ~
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
~By Ellen Ochoa ~
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.
~By Johannes Stark ~
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Christianity is part of the common law.
~By James Wilson ~
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Common sense is genius in homespun.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.
~By Kristi Noem ~
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.
~By Maxfield Parrish ~
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
~By Walt Disney ~
Absence - that common cure of love.
~By Lord Byron ~
In today's economy, it's more common to need two incomes to raise a family.
~By John Fisher ~
We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.
~By Anna Lindh ~
I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
~By James Lafferty ~
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
~By William James ~
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
~By Barbara Deming ~
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
~By John Webster ~
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
~By Albert Claude ~
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
~By Harrison Ford ~
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
~By David Ricardo ~
Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
~By Ogden Nash ~
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
~By George Washington ~
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
~By George Washington Carver ~
No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.
~By Bob Riley ~
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
~By William Banting ~
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
~By Charles Perrault ~
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
~By John Fowles ~
God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
~By Giuseppe Mazzini ~
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.
~By Robert Menendez ~
Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
~By Susan George ~
Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
~By Chester W. Nimitz ~
They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
~By Afrika Bambaataa ~
Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
~By Bob Ney ~
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
~By Sun Tzu ~
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.
~By Sandy Koufax ~
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
~By George Muller ~
We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.
~By Li Peng ~
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
~By Colin Firth ~
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
~By Nick Hornby ~
The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal.
~By Henry Pelham ~
When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
~By Agnes Macphail ~
Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
~By Ric Keller ~
Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
~By Fred L. Turner ~
Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
~By Ike Skelton ~
Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.
~By David Carradine ~
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
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