Banal Quotes

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.