Top 1200 Common Denominator Quotes & Sayings

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

The common denominator is a love of music.

If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer.

Food is a common denominator for all people.

All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator.

A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.

The common denominator is that we all need help.

Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!

The common denominator for success is work.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

If there's a common denominator in all of the parts I've played, they are all strong women in tough situations.

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

I want to say to anyone who works in a drone workplace, raise the bar! There's no reason why you have to dress to the lowest common denominator.

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.

The people of NSW should not continue to be held hostage to a lowest common denominator approach that privileges the parochial interests of small populations.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

I remember, when they started remaking 'Star Wars,' the fury that surrounded that whole thing, and, 'How dare they?' But now, that's just a common denominator.

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.

Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do.

We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy - like the fart joke!

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make that common denominator memorable.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

The common denominator of the great women leaders in the world - Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir - is that they're dramatically nonsexual.