“We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”
Susan Sontag
“Nobody has worked harder at inactivity with such a force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task”
Walter Lippmann
“There's such unremitting attention to the Oscars after the nominations come out. That automatically sparks greater sales.”
Chris Anstey
“must take more effective measures and make unremitting efforts to fight corruption and build a clean and honest government.”
Zhu Rongji
“Popular culture is riding a zipline to banality in a handbasket.”
Rain Bojangles
“Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude”
Oscar Wilde
“Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.”
Michael McKean
