Banal Quotes
91 quotes by 84 authors
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
— Manolo Blahnik
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In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
— Milton Glaser
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.
— Josef Sudek
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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
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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
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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
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How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.
— David Foster
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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
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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
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
— Edward Abbey
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There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.
— Edward Abbey
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It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from…
— Carl Jung
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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
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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
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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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