Common Figures

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or figures:

“The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“But that wasn’t fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
people they say Oh yes, they’re the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)