Bland Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Bland Quotes from famous persons: Anne Dudley, David Burtka, Gerard Butler, Janet Fitch, Mel Giedroyc. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Bland Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can’t say I’m very impressed with the food in America. it’s all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.

Anne Dudley

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

David Burtka

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland… because you’re going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

Gerard Butler

You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There’s texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I’m a great believer in reading aloud.

Janet Fitch

We have our detractors. If we didn’t, that would be weird. That would make me feel, ‘Oh God, we must be really bland.’ You have to have detractors.

Mel Giedroyc

Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Mya Hall, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland – these names are important. They’re inherently important, and the space that #BlackLivesMatter held and continues to hold helped propel the conversation around the state-sanctioned violence they experienced.

Patrisse Cullors

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

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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.

Douglas Coupland

Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device.

Mary Roach

I get super bored playing bland, normal girls.

Drea De Matteo

We’ve made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We’ve made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.

John Eldredge

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

Marcus Samuelsson

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

Elizabeth Banks

My favorite drink is water – the bland one: Evian. I stick with that. I celebrate in the evening sometimes with Perrier. That’s why I love coming to California. They’re always talking to you about bottled water.

George Foreman

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Eartha Kitt

For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven‘t been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven’t lost any weight.

Grete Waitz

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

Jorge Ramos

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

Jacob Collier

Half the shows on Comedy Central are just multi-cam blue sets, and they kind of look like game shows from the ’90s. It’s like, ‘Why do such a bland corporate aesthetic when the sky‘s the limit with what you can do?’

Eric Andre

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

Mike Scully

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

Brad Stevens

Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach.

Marcus Samuelsson

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

Yotam Ottolenghi

I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn’t know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn’t listen to much as kid.

Kim Shattuck

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.

Frank Gehry

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

Amanda Hearst

Often I think bullying – especially in its adult, verbal forms – is the sort of thing you don’t realize till the end of the day, and it’s a horrible feeling to realize something wasn’t just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we’re all capable of – of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

Liane Moriarty

Remember that, ultimately, it is your differences that make you who you are and distinguish you from the bland and humdrum, and without your differences you can never hope to truly be special.

A. J. Odudu

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.

Darin Strauss

Often, I think bullying – especially in its adult, verbal forms – is the sort of thing you don’t realize till the end of the day, and it’s a horrible feeling to realize something wasn’t just a bland statement but was actually cruel. But then, we’re all capable of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

Liane Moriarty

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.

P. J. O’Rourke

There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.

Sarah Hall

It’s easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I’ve always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.

David Walliams

I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality of that, the fear in that.

Jodie Turner-Smith

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

Rose Tremain

When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Anwar Sadat. The legacies most associated with him are a network of bridges and highways and ‘stability.’

Mona Eltahawy

I could wear makeup today, and one person would say it looks bland, another would say it looks fake, and another might tell me I look really natural. Everyone is convinced their opinion is the truth, and that’s what I struggle against.

Sheena Iyengar

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

Dale Murphy

What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that’s healthy, I think.

Kevin McCloud

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.

Matt Haig

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.

Jimi Hendrix

I was surprised that everyone calls it ‘morning sickness,’ because it lasted all day. For me, it was even worse at night. During my first two pregnancies, I felt so nauseous all day that I could only eat plain toast and bland foods – no proteins.

Kourtney Kardashian

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.

Sophie Hannah

I don’t think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it’s suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn’t sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange – which is what many economists think it is.

John Lanchester

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, ‘Oh, our attitude has changed. We don’t dislike these people any more.’ But by the strangest coincidence, they haven’t taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

Christopher Isherwood

Nando’s is a casual restaurant rather than a fast-food one – another aspirational touch. The food is energetically spiced, where so many of its competitors are bland and grilled to order, where the competition fries food and then lets it sit around.

John Lanchester

If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won‘t hear an English accent. You’ll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.

Morrissey

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.

Matt McGorry

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.

Todd Young

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

Edgar Winter

Mr. Giuliani’s liabilities as a G.O.P. candidate were obvious. There was his well-documented history of cultural liberalism – on abortion, gay rights, immigration and gun control – which he tried, unsuccessfully, to mask. And then there was his style – bland, uninspiring, even soporific.

Steve Kornacki

I loathe nowheres – airports and bland hotels. I would rather be in an unpleasant, uncomfortable place rather than one just adrift, floating around.

Monty Don

I used to love politics. I can’t say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They’re all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.

Robert Harris

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

Tom Jenkinson

People who aren’t complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that’s the price they pay for being originals.

George Cukor

Anthropology seems so bland and friendly now, but in the early 20th century, Jews could only be dissected badly by these fields. The Jews were extremely assimilated; it’s a different world than now.

Tom Reiss

Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists, the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on ‘Family Guy‘ or ‘South Park‘ that are edgier. Mine‘s not as edgy as those, but it’s edgier than ‘Beetle Bailey.’

Stephan Pastis

I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?

Keith Ellison

My music has a high irritation factor. I’ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

Randy Newman

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.

Michael J. Knowles

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it’s in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

Susan Orlean

I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle.

David Sanborn

Many foreigners imagine that Latin American cuisine is spicy, but Chilean food, on the whole, is extremely bland: salt, vinegar, mayonnaise, and more salt are the four basic condiments. Black pepper is conspicuously absent, and not only from the food – it is also rarely available even on request.

Jonathan Franklin

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

Jeremy Jackson

The person I used to watch growing up was Tony Bland. I just loved the way he played. He was a big guard, and I watched him a lot. He scored, he shared, he did a little bit of everything. I wanted to be a point guard, though it didn’t work out that way.

Trevor Ariza

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we’re going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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