I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality. — Anonymous 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
“Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives. - Clara Bayliss” — John Hennessy Copy Share Image
Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
“A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.” — Carolina de Bartolo Copy Share Image
Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality? — Studs Terkel 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
When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the… — Errollyn Wallen Copy Share Image
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
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
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
“There is no elegy for those who have been dispossessed of their anger--what remains is a future carved out of banality instead… — Brando Skyhorse 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
“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and… — Hannah Arendt 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
Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married… — John Walford Copy Share Image
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them.… — Ian Mcewan 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“The banality of evil. It wasn’t the frothing madman. It was the conscientious us.” — Louise Penny 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
That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
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