To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

- Annette Funicello

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

- Aidan Chambers

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

- Guy Debord

A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

- Manolo Blahnik