Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Banality is sometimes striking.
... love is banality to all outsiders.
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
In woman sex corrects banality, in men it aggravates it.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.
Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.
That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.
There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality.
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.
There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.
The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.
Evil has always been there; it's always a part of us. Evil is no big surprise. But what about the people who gave freely, who stood up for human dignity? Even in the most extreme and terrible situations, these acts of dignity existed. And for me, that is the banality of good.
