Quotes About Mundane

Sparring gowns, battle gowns, executioner's gowns—it didn't matter. They were all dull dull dull!

Ceremony is the intentful construction of the bridge which spans the barriers that we've created between our soul and our mundane life. Through the creation of ceremony, we allow the free movement of our soul into the mundane and of our consciousness in the realm of soul. It's a two-way bridge.

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as lyrics. I believe such attempts create mundane songs, and they hardly stand the test of time.

Lo que ocurre necesariamente, lo necesario lo que se repite todos los días es mudo. Sólo la casualidad nos habla

Elle ne savait rien des soucis grands et temporels, elle vivait pour ses soucis petits et éternels.

Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man.

Trevor wondered if anyone in the outside world could even guess at the horror of working in the Planning Department

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

It was turning out to be one of those days. The sort you got every day.

That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary.

I'm taller than my father, and taller than two of the stones at Ban Drochaid ." "I meant in feet," she clarified. Speaking of the mundane gave her a measure of calm. He eyed his boots a moment and appeared to be doing some rapid calculations.

The decline of the baths was due more directly to the fall of Rome than to the rise of Christianity, but there is no denying that the three events—one apparently mundane, but close to the heart of Roman civilization, and two with vast, long-term consequences—were intertwined

Coming from the field of aviation, where mundane errors could cost lives, he was exact. For all these reasons, Dunie was drawn to testing, the grubby and anonymous side of programming.

We ignore familiar patterns in ordinary contexts, so much so that we forget large portions of our days, which are spent doing routine things like brushing our teeth or getting dressed.

And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had bred.

nice = boring

Every genre succumbs to gentrification at some point- as equipment becomes cheaper, as crowds become younger, there seems to be a sheepish attitude towards producers - how they can follow a mundane, linear sound, and make money.

I think comedy drama is a tricky one. But it's like in real life: often really tense, dramatic situations can be punctuated with the mundane and banal, and that's what we try to capture in 'Stella.'

I don't know if you saw, in the first 'Celebrity Big Brother,' Jack Dee was in it, and tried to escape by digging a hole with a spoon. That just made me think: that approach would be perfect on 'Taskmaster' - trying to achieve something impossible with something mundane.

A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

This one,' said the hooded man, 'resists sorcery, Cotillion. Though his blood is old, I wonder, will all mortals one day be like him? An end to miracles. Nothing but dull, banal existence, nothing but mundane absence of wonder.' The cane jabbed. 'A world of bureaucrats. Mealy-minded, sour-faced and miserable as a reunion of clerks. In such a world, Cotillion, not even the gods will visit. Except in pilgrimage to depression.