Abandoned Quote by Don DeLillo

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the…

— Chuck Jones

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

— Virginia Woolf

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is…

— George A Tice

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

— Gertrude Atherton

Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which is the way it should be.…

— Claes Oldenburg

When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.

— Edward Gorey

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

— Louis de Bernieres

“It is commonplace to talk as if the world "has" meaning, to ask what "is" the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting,…

— Dean Barnlund

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

— Jennifer Chiaverini

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes…

— Henry Adams