We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA , A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE , AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“We never come out untouched from the spell of beauty. While we break away from the commonplace, upscaling and veering from the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
A fellow must know where he wants to go, if he is going to get anywhere. It is so easy just to… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at… — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
What am I doing with my life? Am I just going to some humdrum job that I don’t really want to be… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything,… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
