“There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning.” KnowsWayTryingFirstsLongMomentsMovingStarsFeltLinesForgetLove IsSawsHappenedNeededFirst TimeProofStuckRelatedOur FutureSparksWarningSlipsYour FutureMundaneSaddestCaptivated Author:Taylor Swift
“A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.” WellsMightEyeLife IsJoyMagicVictorySorrowComfortableDefeatScarySplendidClosingMundaneGoing For ItClosing Your Eyes Author:Nicholas Lore
“You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian, mundane things. And the cash.” KnowsLittlesFactsMorningScriptsCashEvery MorningMundanePedestriansMailboxes Author:Paul Reiser
“Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.” KindSometimesLightBeautifulReadingGivenInformationSkillsPhotographerPhotographCloudsContemporaryLandscapeDramaticBuriedMundaneSiftingPretty PictureBeautiful Landscapes Author:Lucy R. Lippard
“I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.” SoulJobsSidesSummerTrainingMy SoulTeenagerHatedMundaneBright Side Author:Craig Ferguson
“They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )” PeopleWorldRealityWantedUsedPurposeAttentionFocusSpecialDrawsPhotographUglyBackgroundsArtisticDepressingCrapUrbanCartoonUtilityMundaneBleakStanleySnapshotsUrban LifeSacramento Author:Robert Crumb
“Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.” WayShouldWorshipBiggerWorthyMundaneBigger Than Life Author:David LaChapelle
“Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what's going down, most of us go out in the world expecting to give form to the magazine, or to newspaper editor's ideas, using what's become over the years a pretty standardized visual language. So we search for what is instantly recognizable, supportive of the text, easiest to digest, or most marketable - more mundane realities be damned.” WorldGivingYearsIdeasRealRealityMightJobsFormLanguageNewspapersMagazinesVisualsExceptionEditorsExpectingReportersDocumentsSupportiveMundaneIllustratorsPhotojournalistsNewspaper Editors Author:Eugene Richards
“I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.” WayMindSeemsLive LifeMixturesMundane Author:Laurie Foos
“No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.” MatterActivityNo Matter WhatInvestmentMundane Author:Strive Masiyiwa
“Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” CreativityScientistEngineersMarvelousMundanePiercings Author:Bill Moyers
“I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.” BelieveSometimesSpiritualI BelieveHappeningsSurpriseI Believe InThings HappenMundane Author:Rae Morris
“I think in certain ways sex work has been romanticized. I can only speak from my experience, but what surprised me about escorting was how boring it mostly is. it seemed like an assembly line process of cleaning my apartment, dressing up, making awkward small talk, having mundane mechanical sex, making more awkward small talk, and then closing the door after them. There's also a lot of frustration and annoyance with it that I feel isn't discussed (a lot of flaky potential clients for instance.)” ThinkingWayFeelsHas BeensI CanCertainSpeakSexProcessLinesDoorsBoringInstanceFrustrationAwkwardApartmentClientsCleaningDressingsClosingMundaneAssemblyDressing UpAnnoyanceSex WorkSmall TalkAssembly LineEscorting Author:Marie Calloway
“I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.” TryingEnoughSleepSupportTeamExerciseMountainMundaneGood TeamEnough Sleep Author:Lisa Loeb
“What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in Haiti. As I say, I've tended to find these people - I mean, Saddam, I've never met or interviewed - but these other people to be rather disappointing. Their political goals were mundane. What they had working for them was opportunism, was very often cleverness and was ruthlessness.” PeopleMeanDoePoliticalLyingEvilGoalBehindsMetsSaddamHusseinMundaneDisappointingClevernessHaitiRuthlessnessOpportunism Author:Mark Danner
“The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply be messy and pointless for the chemists to essay physical reductions, or for the biologists to offer number-free explanations. It's a weird kind of science-worship that views these practical considerations as clues to the nature of reality.)” KindRealityViewsNumbersMoralPracticeOffersWorshipPracticalsFeaturesExplanationConsiderationRelevantMetaphysicalClueEssaysMessyMundanePointlessReductionBiologistChemist Author:David Papineau
“I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of mundane summer jobs back in Britain where I mixed with less well off people. Maybe it comes from there but I've always felt that it's our duty to make society fairer.” PeopleWellsDoneJobsFeltDutySummerSeasonsWinterBackgroundsBritainPrivilegedMundaneAlpsWinter Season Author:Jonathan Trigell
“To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayMindSeemsCrossesBullshitMundane Author:Phil Elvrum
“Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.” ShouldClothesMundanePrada Author:Miuccia Prada
“The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time” SometimesDifficultPathDisciplineMundaneContinuumPath To SuccessDaily Discipline Author:Darren Hardy
“Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even if you do not strive much for progress in learning, if you can minimize the influence things have on you, you will soar into the realm of sages.” IfsFeelingsProgressInfluenceAchievementStriveRealmsReachingTaoismShedSoarSageMundaneLoftyGreat Achievement Author:Zicheng Hong
“Love is when there is no denying "it"... that magical, elusive feeling that really seizes us and takes us from the inside. To me, it's in the corners of my niece's little smile, or when I see my mother is calling me from Australia, or when I hear my husband's footsteps in our hallway. It's in the mundane and in the epic.” LittlesFeelingsMotherLove IsCallingHusbandCornersAustraliaMy HusbandEpicMundaneFootstepsElusiveHallwaysNieceMy Niece Author:Stephanie Ellis
“When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.” RealityReality Of LifeMundaneShorthand Author:Walter Hill
“My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that any artist who wants to create a grand narrative on a grand scale has to sort of parse out some of the smaller aspects of painting or the more mundane aspects of painting to others.” WantArtistBitsPracticePaintingAspectStudiosScalesNarrativePeterMundaneRubens Author:Kehinde Wiley
“While it may seem a little mundane, the material realities of realizing the painting actually have a lot to do with how you should read the painting. For example, we assume that what the model is wearing is what we found him in in the streets. No; in fact, a lot of what happens is that in Photoshop certain aspects are being heightened or diminished. There is no actual material truth in these paintings.” ShouldMayLittlesFactsRealitySeemsHappensCertainFoundRealizingStreetsExamplePaintingMaterialsModelsAspectAssumingMundanePhotoshop Author:Kehinde Wiley
“If you look at the history of unexplained phenomena that was first explained by spiritual, mystical forces, the track record is not very good for the mystical, magical explanations to survive against more quote "mundane" physical explanations.” IfsFirstsLooksSpiritualForceRecordsVery GoodTrackExplanationMysticalMundaneTrack RecordUnexplained Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.” HoursPlanetsAmountExcuseFiniteMundanePredictableNo Excuses Author:Masiela Lusha
“The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent in terms of planetary development. I think this might be because nature corresponds to the unconscious and the artificial world of the city and human culture to the conscious mind.” ThinkingWorldMindHumansRealHandsMightCultureTermCitiesDevelopmentConsciousUnconsciousArtificialUrbanMundaneConscious Mind Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“There was never a moment in George Carlin's career where he dipped below an A+. When he came out with the "Hippie Dippie Weatherman" on The Tonight Show, I mean, it seems so mundane now, but it was in black and white TV and the whole bit was that this guy smoked tons of grass and was a terrible weather man. "Forecast for tonight? Dark."” MenMeanWholeMomentsShowsSeemsGuyBitsBlackDarkWhiteCareersTvsTerribleWeatherGrassTonightBlack And WhiteThis GuyHippieMundaneForecastsWeathermen Author:Jay Mohr
“I like all forms of movies. I'm a movie geek, so I watch all kinds of films, but - and I read all kinds of things, too. But the poetry that speaks to me the most directly will contain mundane things, will contain details.” KindFilmFormSpeakWatchesDetailsAll KindsGeekMundane Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I feel like with everything you do, everything you make, everything you experience, y'know, even the dumb stuff that you don't even really pay much attention to, like the mundane stuff that happens to you every day, it shapes the person who you are.” KnowsFeelsPersonsHappensStuffPayAttentionShapesWho You AreDumbMundaneDumb Stuff Author:Frank Iero
“I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.” PeopleWorldWantHelpingBitsSkinsMundane Author:Bill Oberst Jr.
“My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.” BasketballCoachesMeaningfulMundane Author:Phil Jackson
“Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.” PeopleExistenceMundaneUnreal Author:Beth Ditto
“Sometimes I wish it were a simpler world. I love and hate people. When I say I hate people, I really truly mean it. Sometimes I think everyone should be dead, that the animals would be better off without people. But sometimes I go into the square and I look at all the people passing me by and it fulfills me -as long as they don't bother me. As long as they just walk past and don't ask me for anything, it's fine. I almost wish I could think about it in a mundane way.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanLongSometimesPastHateWishAnimalI HateBotherAsk MeMundaneLove And HateHate PeopleI Hate People Author:Willis Earl Beal
“Everyone is creative, but me and my colleagues are using a different definition of creativity than is implied when people say they are not creative. We believe that people are being creative if they are bringing out their highest inner resources to improve their lives and those around them. Those who are living from their core, and doing what they are destined to do, are being creative, no matter how mundane their work or profession might seem.” PeopleBelieveDifferentCreativityCreativeProfessionBe CreativeMundane Author:Michael Ray
“Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.” LanguageObsessionTranslateMundanePunWelsh Author:Gruff Rhys
“I don't like the word power, because I don't really care about power. No, that's not what it is. I like that I make people feel good. I like that I take them out of their mundane, boring slumber. And I wake them up, and they have fun.” PeopleCareFunBoringFeel GoodHaving FunMundane Author:Andy Dick
“I write like anyone involved with a family and a full time job: in stolen moments. I've had to adapt because I have so little writing time, so I write while dinner bubbles on the stove, and get away to cafes when I can. It is good to have a small laptop to haul around. I wish I could admit to bizarre writing habits, you know, like "I can only write in the presence of my favorite pet elephant, who is my fount of inspiration," but the truth, alas, is far more mundane.” WritingMomentsInspirationWishHabitMy FavoritePetGet AwayBubblesBizarreMundane Author:Vandana Singh
“We're kept so busy focusing on things that are extremely mundane while the people that possess the real power are deciding what our reality's going to be.” PeopleRealBusyMundane Author:Mr. Lif
“A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.” PeopleTryingSelfUseSocialInterestingShareMediaSocial MediaMundaneInteresting ThingsGlorificationSelf Glorification Author:Ashton Kutcher
“It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.” ThinkingWorldWellsDoeReasonFilmWatchesTelevisionSci FiMundaneOther WorldsAnother World Author:Tatiana Maslany
“When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.” PeopleThinkingFirstsBigsSeemsRememberFiveTypeFirst TimeDramaticConcertsDepressingMarsMundaneCarterVenuesColonizing MarsReally Depressing Author:Moby
“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” CreativityCreativeMarvelousBe CreativeMundaneCreative ArtPiercingsArt And CreativityInspiration And CreativityDesign Inspiration Author:Bill Moyers
“Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.” WantModernExampleHorribleBoardsClassicMundaneModern SocietyIroning Board Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“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.” ThinkingDemocracyTaughtAspectElectionDirtyMundaneFooledNaughtyDisappointing Author:Gael Garcia Bernal
“In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.” WayLooksTurnsSituationNormalAdvantageCurtainsMundaneNormal Things Author:Jerry Saltz
“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.” WellsIdeasValuesChallengesPrinciplesCouragePrideHonorDignityMeaningfulTemptationMundaneMeaningful LifeMundane Life Author:Laura Schlessinger
“Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.” WaitingLinesDoctorsBoringMundaneDentistWaiting In Line Author:Andre Leon Talley