Uncommonplace Quotes & Sayings

She decided to keep this letter because of the strange way it was written. — Jeanne DuPrau

The prince's eyes shone with amusement at her brashness but lingered a bit too long on her body. — Sarah J. Maas

[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven. — Denis Dutton

I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. — Joan Jett

Although I like that answer, I need to hear you say it, sweetheart. Do. You. Want. Me?" I ask, nibbling on her earlobe with each word spoken.

"Yes, dammit, I want you," she says forcefully and yanks my shirt open, ripping the buttons, before tearing it off me. That's all the answer I need. — Nevaeh Lee

I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support. — Ahmed Ben Bella

That would be a slow and cruel death," said Gebe Meskal quietly. "He may survive a week on such a regime, but so little of a skin is not sufficient water for a man laboring in the desert."

Telemakos said through his teeth, "It is for a child. — Elizabeth Wein

A well-chosen tie could make me almost merry; a good book, an excursion in a motor car or an hour with a woman left me fully satisfied. It particularly pleased me to ensure that this way of life, like a faultlessly correct suit of English tailoring, did not make me conspicuous in any way. I believe I was considered pleasant company, I was popular and welcome in society, and most who knew me called me a happy man. — Stefan Zweig

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people — Mark Twain

And I'm thankful, in that moment, full to the brim with gratitude that Christian is with me. He's here. My partner. My best friend. — Cynthia Hand

The truth doesn't only excist of what you see. — Arthur Japin

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria. — Bashar Al-Assad

performing the commonplace under uncommonplace conditions. — Steven Pressfield

Love is poetry, poetry is love — Milan Kundera