Quotes About Mundane

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them - distractions necessitating action. They gave me a sense of purpose. If not for the leaky faucet, the sandwiches, the bills, I might not know what to do with my hands.

I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.

It wasn't a remarkable face in any way, but it had a clean-lined sweetness that brought up summer barbecues, golden retrievers, soccer games on new-mown grass, and I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.

Once again there was the feeling that the ordinary things before one's very eyes were becoming unordinary.

People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.

Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can't communicate otherwise.

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

You have an agreeably uninteresting existence. Let's see if we can change that.

Nobody had told me I was common.

Thoreau's philosophy: If you read about one train wreck, you've read about them all.

couldn't see anything sinister about the place, no paintings of burning churches on the walls, no black candles, no needlepoint pentagrams or black cats, and the kitchen had no bubbling witch's cauldron.

The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.

You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

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. Funny ironing board covers - I hate them.

Our lives are largely made up of a series of mundane moments, but those little moments are often the finesse that shapes our entire existence; it's not necessarily the big, dramatic events, although they do, too, of course.

My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

I love being able to tell a story visually. It's something I love about making commercials, where you put a magnifying glass over the mundane and make it feel extraordinary.

When you're a kid, you imagine acting to be singing and fighting and like the movies. Then you become an actor and get the reality, which is often a lot more mundane. But sometimes it's really nice to run around with guns saving the world.