Top 210 Denominator Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

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

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

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.

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

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

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

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

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

The common denominator is a love of music.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Food is a common denominator for all people.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

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.

The common denominator for success is work.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

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

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.