“If any woman opens her legs for you, don't feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works. — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal.… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Lo superfluo no es eterno. Lo banal tiene un final. Lo material no tiene fundamento y no todo lo que parece verdad… — Dulce María Copy Share Image
Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most… — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
The thing that is most important is having people who are involved and engaged with the kids and also are not stressed… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
