Mundane Quotes

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Dirty, Naughty, Thinking

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• True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Happy, New Year, Greatness

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• This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

  Thomas Keller

  Passion, Everyday Routine, Challenges

  Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

  Colin Powell

  Justice, Comforting, Needs

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• Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

  Bill Moyers

  Creativity, Creative, Piercings

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• Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running.  How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Ordinary, Tools

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• I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Hate, Believe

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.125, Routledge

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• Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Mirrors, Two, Voice

  "The Beautiful and Damned".

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• I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Fabulous, I Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ordinary, Taste, Accustomed

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “The Essays of Montaigne”, p.425

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• My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Reality, Giving

  John Updike (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.17, Knopf

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• Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Intellectual, Transportation, Commonplace

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .

  Rajneesh

  Love Life, Littles, Ordinary

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

  Eve Arnold

  Special, Trying, World

  "Eve Arnold obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2012.

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• The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Latin, Mean

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• What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun.

  Gerard Way

  Fun, Games, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Interesting, Important, Events

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• In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

  Dogen

  Sacred, Sacredness

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• Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Meaningful, Courage, Pride

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• 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.

  Pam Brown

  Beautiful, Dream, Horse

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• There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Family, Cousin, Aunt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu.

  Joan Didion

  Dream, New York, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 25, 2011

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• There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Fun, Thinking, Challenges

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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• A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

  David Mamet

  Theatre, May, Enlightening

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.

  Beth Ditto

  People, Existence, Unreal

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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