Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of…

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

— Bernard Holland

Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

— David Farr

There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here…

— Asger Jorn

“In the face of death, he had nothing to lose by speaking of the intimacies of love. Yet, in the face of life, he…

— Gerard Brooker

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

— Alexander Chase

Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole

— Jane Jacobs

Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware…

— Tommy Rettig

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it…

— Edward Said

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of…

— Tom Robbins

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

— Mary MacLane

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep…

— Moby

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion…

— Daniel Dennett

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

— Timothy Geithner