Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations. — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Have you ever stopped to think what fun this business of living can be? If you haven't, and if you are one… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum… — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“She [Thérèse] believed that the sublime splendour of ordinary existence was hidden from those who lived embedded in it, that for them… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness,… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation,… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him… — Robert Pierce Copy Share Image
It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
