Quotes About Mundane

I'm fed up of doing run-of-the-mill stuff.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

They talk but their words don't register on the soundtrack. Anyway, they must be saying things like how was your day, I'm tired, there's an avocado sandwich in the kitchen, thanks, thanks, a beer in the refrigerator.

la vida no sólo es vulgar sino también inexplicable

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

I'd have wished myself elsewhere, but there is something in a boy that takes the mundanely difficult and unpleasant and turns it into a personal challenge and an adventure.

That, I think, is the power of ceremony. It marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine; the coffee to a prayer.

But the foliage of mundane life just grew over the past a bit every day if you let it. And maybe that was the most extraordinary event of all.

This is how the world ends, I think, everything crazy yet people doing normal things.

At any rate, it was boring to be in ill-health, doubly boring to talk about it.

The weather is like a slice of bread: familiar, an everyday taste, but without it...

When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter—to quit paradise for earth—heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine—taste the hashish.

I looked at the rusty-bottomed bread tin swiped too often by the dishcloth, and the pots sitting on the stove, washed but not put away, and the motto supplied by Fairholme Dairy: The Lord is the Heart of Our House. All these things stupidly waiting for the day to begin and not knowing that it had been hollowed out by catastrophe.

Era bom isto: ter pela manhã uma conversa normal, sem finalidade, uma conversa que nada tivesse a ver com o fato de o mundo estar pegando fogo.

Usability, fundamentally, is a matter of bringing a bit of human rights into the world of computer-human interaction. It's a way to let our ideals shine through in our software, no matter how mundane the software is. You may think that you're stuck in a boring, drab IT department making mind-numbing inventory software that only five lonely people will ever use. But you have daily opportunities to show respect for humanity even with the most mundane software.

Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

I live a normal life.

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

I lead such a boring life.

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.