Mundane Reality Quotes

#1. Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs - and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.

Pawan Mishra

#2. I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

Jonathan Kozol

#3. It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.

Prentice Marshall

#4. As a traveler, education is our way of life.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Most people think this world we live in is mundane, but you remind us that it's magical. You wrap reality in the wonder and joy of fiction, until it infuses us and becomes true.

Menna Van Praag

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

Robin Hobb

#7. At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.

Darin Strauss

#8. Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.

Marilyn Monroe

#9. I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.

Danny Wallace

#10. My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

John Updike

#11. She's oxygen, and without her, I'm dead.

J.M. Darhower

#12. Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.

Pawan Mishra

#13. But death, even as grisly a death as his, could not lay Blackbeard to rest. Reports have put his restless spirit on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, scene of some of his rowdiest bacchanals where his favorite anchorage is known to this day as Teach's Hole.

Nicholas Jeffries

#14. For me, animated film is about magic. This is how magic becomes part of daily life, invading daily life.... Magic enters into a quite ordinary contact with mundane things ... (making) reality seem doubtful.

Jan Svankmajer

#15. Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

Sri Chinmoy

#16. O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.

William Shakespeare

#17. Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.

Trina Schart Hyman

#18. It seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#19. Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

Kim Fowley

#20. At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

Woody Allen

#21. Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

Norman Spinrad

#22. I put the 'fun' in fund-raising and the 'rah' in Israel.

Stewart Rahr

#23. She was fantasy and I was the very most mundane kind of reality.

Stephenie Meyer