That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“Let a man be either a hero or a saint. In between lies, not wisdom, but banality.” — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
“Beyond the feeble capacity of words. Defying the banality of description.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
“Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives. - Clara Bayliss” — John Hennessy Copy Share Image
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves. — Alan Perlis 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
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“We are asked to orient our “strategies” and “tactics” around poverty and material immiseration at a time when revolutionary sentiment is being… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. — Teju Cole 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
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language… — George Saunders 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
The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was before we were transferred.… — William Styron Copy Share Image
TV's exploration of the game of consumption and sociability is, by the nature ofthe medium, on a far more subtle level than… — Reuel Denney Copy Share Image
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“Travel was once a means of being elsewhere, or of being nowhere. Today it is the only way we have of feeling… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation.… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. — Eugene Ionesco 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
“The banality of evil. It wasn’t the frothing madman. It was the conscientious us.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.” — Carolina de Bartolo Copy Share Image
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