Banal Quotations | Page 2

Look, I would be disappointed if I did a show in which people didn't complain about something. It would have to be so banal and so white-bread.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.

I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me,

... love is banality to all outsiders.

It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality.

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things.

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?" "Basically everything, except technical proficiency," Walter said. "Right." "But maybe especially the banality of the lyrics. 'Gotta be free, so free, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't live without my freedom, yeah yeah.' That's pretty much every song.

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?