“An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane, and pursues the obscure.”
Richard Reeves
“An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.”
“We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.”
Andy Partridge
“He has managed to capture the particular aura that made even the poet's more mundane activities-of which there were many-fascinatingly boring, so to speak, rather than merely boringly boring.”
John Gross
“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
“Well, it's a very mundane answer I'm afraid, nothing to do with Eric Clapton or born again religions or anything like that.”
Jack Bruce
“There are times, Mr. Speaker, when we must look beyond the mundane and the pragmatic and take a stand based on our values. I believe this is one of those times...I don't believe the people of New Hampshire elected us to help the federal government create a national ID card.”
Rep. Neal Kurk
