Best Banal Quotations
91 Banal quotes by 82 unique authors
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He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal…
— P.D. James
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Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories.…
— Charles de Lint
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What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions…
— MacDonald Harris
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Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting…
— Idries Shah
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You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be just a wave (...) Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth
— Karen Marie Moning
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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
— Mary McCarthy
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I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
— Bryan Magee
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Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even…
— Danielle de Niese
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then…
— Rachel Joyce
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The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration…
— John Updike
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Hey your so smart well once you tell the definiton of braggadocio and...Acclaim Accolade Adamant Advocate Affable Alienate Altruistic Ambiguous Amity Anarchy Apathy Appease Asperity…
— MrAwesome
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The word for 'banal' should be replaced every five years on principle.
— Unknown Author
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I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come…
— Paul Rudd
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Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition... in the…
— John O'Donohue
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All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage tounderstand,…
— Unknown Author
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