Top 215 Bland Quotes & Sayings

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

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

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

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

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

It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.

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

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

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.

The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'

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

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

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

It sounds outright bland, but people here in Indiana want conscientious public servants who have deep convictions but are prepared to work across the aisle when possible.

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.

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

My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.

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.

[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.

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

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.

People under-salt their food, and they think it's bland, but salt brings out flavor.

I'm pretty bland. I'm not a big decorator.

Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

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

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

D is a wholesome key. It's not bland, like C. It's not neutral. It's probably on the bright side.

I think comedy has to be very fearless, or it just gets bland.

[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.

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

I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.

A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.

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.

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

Beauty is not generic, bland, and clinical. It isn't all things to all people. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in its endlessly intricate detail was beautiful. Modern office buildings are not.

Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

Many people are turned off at eating vegetarian because of the misconception that all dishes are just an arrangement of bland vegetables.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

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.

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

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

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.

I get super bored playing bland, normal girls.

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.

I'm not glamorous and a bit bland, but I think that's my strength. That may be a reason behind what people say is my good chemistry with many actors.

Little Richard was it for me, man. Later, it was Ray Charles and Bobby 'Blue' Bland, B.B. King.

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

We've all had classes with a professor so bland and monotone that their lectures sound like Mitt Romney reading 'Paradise Lost' from a blown speaker.

A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects.

I like to think of bread as really bland cake.

I got sort of sick of seeing Asians being the blank, bland real estate agent or something. I didn't care. It didn't mean anything to me.

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

Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K.