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Mundane Quotes

I’ve dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow Picture Quote #1

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay Picture Quote #1

There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with Picture Quote #1

Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy Picture Quote #1

We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It’s as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully Picture Quote #1

You can’t know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small Picture Quote #1

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Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis Picture Quote #1

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I’m fine Picture Quote #1

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I’m vacuuming or waiting in lines Picture Quote #1

Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar Picture Quote #1

I learned as a young man that I don’t write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist Picture Quote #1

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? Picture Quote #1

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The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit Picture Quote #1

A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence Picture Quote #1

What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself Picture Quote #1

That’s the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst Picture Quote #1

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane Picture Quote #1

She’d never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart Picture Quote #1

We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting Picture Quote #1

On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician Picture Quote #1

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms Picture Quote #1

I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out! Picture Quote #1

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Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty Picture Quote #1

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental Picture Quote #1

There’s something that’s really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think Picture Quote #1

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored Picture Quote #1

The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn’t allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It’s a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul Picture Quote #1

She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not Picture Quote #1

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I’ve dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow (Mundane Quotes) Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay (Mundane Quotes) There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with (Mundane Quotes) Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy (Mundane Quotes) We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It’s as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully (Mundane Quotes) You can’t know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small (Mundane Quotes) Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis (Mundane Quotes) I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I’m fine (Mundane Quotes) I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I’m vacuuming or waiting in lines (Mundane Quotes) Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar (Mundane Quotes) I learned as a young man that I don’t write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist (Mundane Quotes) How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? (Mundane Quotes) The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit (Mundane Quotes) A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence (Mundane Quotes) What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself (Mundane Quotes) That’s the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst (Mundane Quotes) It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane (Mundane Quotes) She’d never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door (Mundane Quotes) 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 (Mundane Quotes) When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart (Mundane Quotes) We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting (Mundane Quotes) On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician (Mundane Quotes) We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms (Mundane Quotes) I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out! (Mundane Quotes) Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty (Mundane Quotes) There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental (Mundane Quotes) There’s something that’s really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think (Mundane Quotes) Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored (Mundane Quotes) The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn’t allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It’s a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul (Mundane Quotes) She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not (Mundane Quotes)

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