The word for 'banal' should be replaced every five years on principle. — John Alejandro King Aka 'The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
“In an art museum, you shall realise how banal and how ordinary the life outside!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable. — Annette Funicello Copy Share Image
Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being. — Jeff Koons 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
I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It’s so banal.” — Robert Harris 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
It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even… — William Gibson 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
“A banal mysticism, which is so banal that all the mysticism seems to have evaporated long ago, binds 'us' to the homeland… — Michael Billig 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
Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
“Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes (the) banal and common change… — Robert Lane Greene 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
The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The pastoral vocation in America is embarrassingly banal. It is banal because it is pursued under the canons of job efficiency and… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal.” — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“I think we endure the banal as a way of skirting around the bane.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it. — Aidan Chambers 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
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
“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
Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence. — Anthony Giddens 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
The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works. — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
