Quotes about Mundane

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. Votes: 4

You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be. Votes: 4

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court." "I wish someone had mentioned that earlier," said Simon, to no one in particular. "I take it I'm just supposed to wait out here until vines start growing on me?" Meliorn considered. "That might offer significant amusement. Votes: 3

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation. Votes: 2

What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness? Votes: 2

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. Votes: 2

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. Votes: 2

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. Votes: 2

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. Votes: 2

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine. Votes: 2

True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time. Votes: 2

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. Votes: 2

My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating. Votes: 2

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. Votes: 2

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that. Votes: 2

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path. Votes: 2

Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement. Votes: 2

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time. Votes: 2

Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for the weekend to party so they can get outside of their head. Votes: 2

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! Votes: 2

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. . Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. Votes: 2

It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried. Votes: 2

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase. Votes: 2

In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work. Votes: 2

Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. Votes: 2

As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms. Votes: 2

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense. Votes: 2

Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through their particular perspective. Walk around the block with them, stroll the rooms they live in, figure out what objects on the cluttered dining room table they would inevitably stare at the longest, and then learn why. Votes: 2

If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things. Votes: 2

Going to grocery stores is almost my favorite thing to do to calm myself down. There's something about just walking aisle after aisle making mundane choices. 'Do I want that? No, I want the one that has the low sodium.' And that feels like a good exercise to be doing when there isn't anything to be doing. It's like a kick-starter in some way. Votes: 2

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill. Votes: 2

I didn't like mundane life. Votes: 0

Time had changed the magical to mundane Votes: 0

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness. Votes: 0

The only training for the heroic is the mundane. Votes: 0

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same. Votes: 0

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. Votes: 0

Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes. Votes: 0

Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred. Votes: 0

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing. Votes: 0

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane. Votes: 0

I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic. Votes: 0

In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane. Votes: 0

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap. Votes: 0

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value. Votes: 0

This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain. Votes: 0

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions. Votes: 0

How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane. Votes: 0

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. Votes: 0

If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane. Votes: 0

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane. Votes: 0

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives. Votes: 0

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing. Votes: 0

Energy work is priceless. It makes every day extraordinary and transforms the mundane to the holy. Votes: 0

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life. Votes: 0

We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time. Votes: 0

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying. Votes: 0

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think. Votes: 0

Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters. Votes: 0

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. Votes: 0

Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty. Votes: 0

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating. Votes: 0

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. Votes: 0

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit. Votes: 0

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane? Votes: 0

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else. Votes: 0

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have... Votes: 0

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental. Votes: 0

How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things Votes: 0

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due. Votes: 0

Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem. Votes: 0

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is. Votes: 0

Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight. Votes: 0

His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness. Votes: 0

To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence. Votes: 0

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge. Votes: 0

When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence Votes: 0

We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control. Votes: 0

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much. Votes: 0

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? Votes: 0

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door Votes: 0

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer. Votes: 0

The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time Votes: 0

Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent. Votes: 0

Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful. Votes: 0

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. Votes: 0

A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie Votes: 0

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane. Votes: 0

I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical. Votes: 0

I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane. Votes: 0

Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy Votes: 0

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. Votes: 0

It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane. Votes: 0

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good. Votes: 0

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. Votes: 0

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty. Votes: 0

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand. Votes: 0

THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. Votes: 0

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. Votes: 0

Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so. Votes: 0

Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about. Votes: 0

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week. Votes: 0

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness. Votes: 0

Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun Votes: 0

No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it. Votes: 0

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane Votes: 0

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary. Votes: 0

Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure. Votes: 0

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane. Votes: 0

Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition. Votes: 0

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic. Votes: 0

To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind. Votes: 0

Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition. Votes: 0

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition. Votes: 0

I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me. Votes: 0

The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness. Votes: 0

I have always tried to live by the 'awe principle.' That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable? Votes: 0

Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas. Votes: 0

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles. Votes: 0

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are. Votes: 0

Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain. Votes: 0

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly. Votes: 0

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight. Votes: 0

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way. Votes: 0

After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world? Votes: 0

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane. Votes: 0

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality. Votes: 0

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules. Votes: 0

This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world. Votes: 0

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane. Votes: 0

There's a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I didn't know you were bringing the mundane." His blue eyes flicked uneasily over Simon. "That's what I like about you people," said Simon. "You always make me feel so welcome. Votes: 0

I think there's something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It's impossible to articulate, and it's happening now, almost like a perverse secret. . . . That's always sort of fascinating to me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living. Votes: 0

The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script. Votes: 0

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman Votes: 0

Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit. Votes: 0

Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No one is born poor, but we are all born as ordinary humans; it is the poor mindset that makes poor choices that qualifies one as poor in spirit and in the mundane. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane. Votes: 0

Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all of which are ruled by Satan, the personification of the Left Hand Path. Votes: 0

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. Funny ironing board covers - I hate them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared. Votes: 0

Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement. Votes: 0

Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement. Votes: 0

I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute." "Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away. Votes: 0

I think I like ‘mundane’ better than ‘bloodsucker,’” Simon muttered. “With Jace, you don’t really get to choose your insulting nickname.” -Simon and Clary, pg.234- Votes: 0

My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn. Votes: 0

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. Votes: 0

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing. Votes: 0

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 ... Votes: 0