If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me. — Ron White Copy Share Image
“Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.” — Lucia Berlin Copy Share Image
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane. — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
“And it's this, the little mundane things, things you really do skip over, that make a difference.” — Emma Hart Copy Share Image
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing. — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in… — Strive Masiyiwa Copy Share Image
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I just tend to think about everyday things for my onstage act. Actually you know what I like to talk about just… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
While it may seem a little mundane, the material realities of realizing the painting actually have a lot to do with how… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the… — Moby Copy Share Image
Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
You get a kind of surreal feeling and also it allows you to focus on the things we want you to focus… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather,… — Roberta Bondi Copy Share Image
The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“From the earliest days of man there has endured the conviction that there is an order of existence which is entirely strange… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
I think in certain ways sex work has been romanticized. I can only speak from my experience, but what surprised me about… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image