common occurrences Quotes

Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.

The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

To me, such functions are like supermarket openings.

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.

What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.