Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought!… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?" "Basically everything, except technical proficiency," Walter said. "Right." "But maybe especially the banality of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The truth was that I'd been spending years running away from myself. I hid myself in drama, silliness, stupidity, banality. So afraid… — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.” — Ervin Staub Copy Share Image
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
