Quotes About Mundane

Yo pienso que en esto radica el sentido de la creación literaria: en la descripción de objetos ordinarios tal y como quedarán reflejados en los espejos amables de los tiempos futuros; en encontrar en los objetos que nos rodean la ternura fragante que sólo la posteridad podrá discernir y apreciar en los lejanos tiempos venideros en los que cada minucia de nuestra aburrida vida cotidiana se convertirá en algo exquisito y festivo por derecho propio

Reno, a dreary town in Nevada

People say the word 'nice' and they mean 'boring.

They play like file clerks file.

tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation. ... the window rosy with anemic November light.

As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Good work requires of us an appreciation of the value of routine, ordinary, mundane rhythms of doing what needs to be done, each day and each week, thoroughly and with care.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.

I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'

There are times when it requires a high courage to speak the banal.

I live a pretty normal life.

I want to live like a normal life.

I'm just a normal person.

I'm really just a normal person.

In my real life I'm a very normal person.

Normally, when you do a movie, you have those mundane days when it's like, 'Today is the scene where I get coffee.'

Beige curtains... there's nothing wrong with them. You're not like, 'Ew, gross! Beige curtains!' You just don't notice them either way. They're just, like, fine.

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.

Most people are boring and stupid.