Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Butterfield

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

Stewart Butterfield

Email is the lowest common denominator. It's the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn't really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you're sending a message to a human you don't know well, you're using email.

Virginia Postrel

The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.

Amani Toomer

I think we've pretty much reached a common ground. We see that he's willing to meet us halfway, so we're willing to meet him halfway.

I think that as a whole, the African-American community needs to come together and really support each other and work together towards a common goal.

Bo Burnham

I've always liked TV shows that have slightly unlikable leads, where you root for them in spite of a lot of things. I know it's not common with shows with young people; they have to be so likable. But, I mean, teenagers just generally aren't very likable. I know I wasn't as a teenager.

Al Jourgensen

This administration affects the everyday life of the common person.

We're kind of waiting on a counter from them. We're still way early in the negotiations. We're just getting started. It's just a matter of trying to find some common ground and going to work on that common ground.

E. W. Howe

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

E. W. Howe

What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

Coventry Patmore

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

We should return to the development of common international election standards.

Joel Salatin

It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.

Amy Bloom

My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

Gerhard Schroder

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

There are hundreds of us. Our common denominator is Gladys Morris.

Glenn Greenwald

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

With stateless Linux we can get to one image for all the systems. You can extract-out the common information, and the only things that are different are things like IP addresses. You can manage a thousand systems easily this way.

Julie Gerberding

We need to create a culture where hand-washing is the thing to do, ... If we can just wash our hands, we will have an impact on some of the most common problems, as well as some of the most serious health problems we face.

Jalal Talabani

The president is representing the sovereignty of Iraq. He has the right to oversee all common issues of Iraq.

George Bernard Shaw

Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English

The reason we have got a lot of that in this town is because it's so common because of the casinos. I think there is some bleed-over of that to other businesses.

Jack Abramoff

The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding federal government creates ever-increasing opportunities for abuse. The more the federal government does, the more lobbyists there will be to protect special interests at the expense of the common interest.

Chris Rock

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

Joschka Fischer

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me.

Thomas Reid

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

Stephen Parker

We're looking at a lot of runoff. People should use their common sense.

Scott Adams

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time.

Charles V

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.