Famous quotes containing the words common and/or notions:
“Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Even the simple act that we call “going to visit a person of our acquaintance” is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)