Banal Quotes

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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things. — Manolo Blahnik
In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. — Milton Glaser
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to… — Raoul Vaneigem
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates… — Michael Leunig
You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and… — Jason Calacanis
They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ... they never criticise in an… — Eamon Dunphy
Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like… — Lewis Thomas
I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects. — Josef Sudek
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless.… — John Szarkowski
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as… — Walter Benjamin
In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything… — Okakura Kakuzo
How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean. — David Foster
I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that… — Christopher Hitchens
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who… — Mary Jo Bang
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey
There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal. — Edward Abbey
It will seem as if you were making the visions banal â€” but then you need to do that â€” then you are freed from… — Carl Jung
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in… — Aron Nimzowitsch
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal… — David Foster Wallace
But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they… — Ransom Riggs

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