Banality Quote by Marguerite Duras

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

— Michael McKean

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

— Robert Smithson

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not…

— Douglas Sirk

I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.

— George Saunders

Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues…

— Gerhard Richter

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

— Paul Hindemith

“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal"…

— Anna Quindlen

“you seem to find everything banal." "it's a new word whose correct use i have only lately learnt,' said josephine with dignity. 'i find…

— Evelyn Waugh Scoop

Words can crush things that are unseen.

— Jewel

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too…

— George Eliot

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

— George Eliot

Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

— Lilith Saintcrow