Blaise Pascal Quotes

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

Banality is sometimes striking.

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

I'm a cliche.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

Small things amuse small minds.

'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's just my take on it.

In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal.

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

The trouble with you, Eisenhower, is that you're too small minded.

I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

There has been an obvious effort to play it safe, to make 'Bonanza' a good family show that would offend no one and hit a consistent level of mediocrity.

I describe myself as boring; all I do is work, and I'm a music lover.

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.