Quotes about Bland

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland Votes: 5

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland. Votes: 4

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. Votes: 4

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. Votes: 4

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it. Votes: 4

You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches. Votes: 4

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things. Votes: 4

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books. Votes: 4

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy. Votes: 4

Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes. Votes: 4

A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same. Votes: 4

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music. Votes: 3

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me. Votes: 3

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! Votes: 3

Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland. Votes: 3

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough. Votes: 3

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period. Votes: 3

A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies. Votes: 3

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland. Votes: 3

For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight. Votes: 3

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz. Votes: 3

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all. Votes: 3

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was. Votes: 3

The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct. Votes: 3

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland. Votes: 3

My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland. Votes: 3

Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir, nectar, tequila, or champagne, the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies. Votes: 3

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week. Votes: 3

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now. Votes: 3

Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew. Votes: 3

I get super bored playing bland, normal girls. Votes: 1

I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring. Votes: 1

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable. Votes: 1

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that. Votes: 1

We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man. Votes: 1

The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough. Votes: 1

If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent. Votes: 1

Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach. Votes: 1

People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals. Votes: 1

My favorite drink is water - the bland one: Evian. I stick with that. I celebrate in the evening sometimes with Perrier. That's why I love coming to California. They're always talking to you about bottled water. Votes: 1

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland. Votes: 1

I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin. Votes: 1

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. Votes: 1

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden. Votes: 1

The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise. Votes: 1

Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel. Votes: 1

When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland... Votes: 0

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes. Votes: 0

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland. Votes: 0

I like to think of bread as really bland cake. Votes: 0

The worst thing in the world is to be bland. Votes: 0

Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art. Votes: 0

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland. Votes: 0

Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness. Votes: 0

Your obstacles define your achievements, and without those obstacles, you're just another bland nothing. Votes: 0

When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland. Votes: 0

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland. Votes: 0

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them). Votes: 0

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland. Votes: 0

I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland, pretty boring. Votes: 0

Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat. Votes: 0

No visiting angel could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts. Votes: 0

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring career politician who will lose to Barack Obama. Votes: 0

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that. Votes: 0

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland. Votes: 0

Tell him what? Kat's a raging nymphomaniac. (Kytara) Tara! (Kat) Oh, all right. She's so bland she makes plain toast look spicy. (Kytara) Votes: 0

I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps. Votes: 0

Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation. Votes: 0

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. Votes: 0

Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'? Votes: 0

I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland. Votes: 0

I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland. Votes: 0

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring? Votes: 0

He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face. Votes: 0

Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land. Votes: 0

English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth. Votes: 0

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power. Votes: 0

As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top. Votes: 0

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people. Votes: 0

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. Votes: 0

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Votes: 0

So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box. Votes: 0

Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering. Votes: 0

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on. Votes: 0

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them. Votes: 0

In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard... Votes: 0

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat. Votes: 0

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything. Votes: 0

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work. Votes: 0

American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration. Votes: 0

I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food. Votes: 0

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves. Votes: 0

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages! Votes: 0

Instead of putting cheese with ranchero sauce, chile is really very good for you. If you put that in, you get flavoring, so you're not eating bland food, especially if you're used to spicy food. Votes: 0