Quotes About Blandness

#1. There is so much blandness and grayness out there, people want to be able to say "it's mine." They want to customize their cars like they customize a jeans jacket.

Neil Gershenfeld

#2. In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

Edmund White

#3. Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink.

Alan Hollinghurst

#4. it," finished Susi. "It's almost worth it." Celeste met Susi's raccoon eyes. "Yes." The blandness of Susi's gaze said nothing at all except, Got it. She wasn't being kind and maternal, and she wasn't reveling in the delicious superiority

Liane Moriarty

#5. Palatable. Easier to overlook. Forgotten, or at least smoothed into some pearl-like blandness, if not a thing of beauty.

Cherie Priest

#6. Sandy's was one of those places that made poor, white trash feel like high-class consumers. This was the kind of place you'd take your mistress to, but never your wife. Wives expected better. Mistresses were impressed by the blandness of the over-priced wine and the vast Italian menu options.

Alistair Cross

#7. Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.

Tami Hoag

#8. In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.

Clement Freud

#9. He had to be nice to me at the moment because he had to be surrounded by people. This was because boys like him were, essentially, pasta. Everyone thought they loved him because they had never been forced to experience the true blandness of him on his own.

Matthew Crow

#10. Sicarius, as usual, regarded her with the blandness of a particularly featureless rock, then walked away.

Lindsay Buroker

#11. Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do.

J.G. Ballard

#12. The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. The small men and women with the upslanted eyes looked at his caked forehead and bloody jacket sleeve with unsettling Oriental blandness.

Stephen King

#14. The Hurt Artist is a riveting memoir by Shane Niemeyer that takes us on a raw, unedited life journey that includes the struggles of an addict trying to find peace and the joy and journey to every triathlete's promised land: Kona, Hawaii!

Jason Peter

#15. When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company.

Henrik Fisker

#16. All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence ... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

Stephen Jay Gould

#17. The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.

Russell Kirk

#18. Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

P.G. Wodehouse

#19. Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Dance with the clouds.

A.D. Posey

#21. Writer or a musician, not knowing that it was possible

James McBride

#22. Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Francis Bacon

#23. While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#24. believes the world is against him. Nothing

Matthew Pearl