No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.
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.
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.
Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
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.
We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.
Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.
It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.
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.
Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.
The common denominator is that we all need help.
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than science, business and law because they constitute the common denominator of all of them.
The common denominator for success is work.
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.
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.
