Top 37 Quotes About Banalities
#1. Pullum has special vitriol for Elements of Style, which he calls "E. B. White's disgusting and hypocritical revision of William Strunk's little hodgepodge of bad grammar advice and stylistic banalities" or
Robert Lane Greene
#2. Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity ... It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.
Clifford Geertz
#4. That's what I love about music ... all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.
Mark Ruffalo
#5. He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
Boris Pasternak
#6. Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it?
Dan Simmons
#7. His words are not the uncompromising utterances of politicians or the sanctimonious banalities that try to appease everyone's good conscience. Rather,
Jose Angel N.
#8. Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.
Perry Anderson
#9. Nancy Cartwright here in this School has written the funniest paper on scientific method ever, by taking the average advice from all the books about scientific method, and they are extreme banalities
Bruno Latour
#10. Between the tragedies and heroics there are the everyday banalities of war.
Ada Maria Soto
#11. Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?
Paul Cezanne
#12. Sometimes I go to the beach and stand facing the wind, which I wish were icy, colder than we know it in these parts. I wish it would blow all the hackneyed words, all the insipid habits of language out of me so that I could come back with a cleansed mind, cleansed of the banalities of the same talk.
Pascal Mercier
#13. The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities ... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Andre Gide
#14. In fact, she rather liked it, and found that their mutual lack of language skills freed them from the banalities of conversation.
Violet Kupersmith
#15. He was permanently impressed by the most irrelevant banalities and impossible to impress with real novelty, meaning, or conflict. And he was too moronic to be properly self-loathing
so it was my duty to loathe him instead.
Jonathan Lethem
#16. Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon
Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
#17. Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
Michael McKean
#18. The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.
Asger Jorn
#19. The fact that nine-tenths of all the smutty literature, artistic tripe and theatrical banalities, had to be charged to the account of people who formed scarcely one per cent. of the nation - that fact could not be gainsaid. It was there, and had to be admitted.
Adolf Hitler
#20. In the face of death, he had nothing to lose by speaking of the intimacies of love. Yet, in the face of life, he could speak only of its banalities.
Gerard Brooker
#21. English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.
Elspeth Huxley
#22. First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous
quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities
about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then
that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#23. Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]
Robert C. Solomon
#24. God will do everything possible to help you, to prepare you for what he had called you to do.
Sunday Adelaja
#25. That stranger handed me a letter written in my beloved's tears. I opened it, and the letters faded away just like his love for me.
Natalya Vorobyova
#26. That demon will trick you faster than a politician with a liquor license.
Erik Bundy
#27. the earth has enough to satisfy every man's need but not his greed
Gandhiji
#29. We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.
Linda Buckley-Archer
#30. You may get cheated, robbed, and murdered, in London. But there are plenty of people anywhere, who'll do that for you.
Charles Dickens
#31. In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political.
Sarah Gavron
#32. Take it,' hisses DomDaniel. 'But I will be back for it. I will be back with the seventh of the seventh.
Angie Sage
#33. Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
Zig Ziglar
#34. My acts are irrevocable
Because they have no essence ...
Where are the doers of deeds
Absent among their conditions?
Imagine a magician
Who creates a creature
Who creates other creatures.
Acts I perform are creatures
Who create others.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
#35. When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
Junius
#36. I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.
Vladimir Nabokov
#37. You think I've been around these fuckers long enough to get comfortable enough to SLEEP ten feet away from them? Not fucking likely. (Axel)
Robert Kirkman
