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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
— Franz Grillparzer
Thinking is translating 'prosaic-ideas' without accessories" since ideas (in brain) do not follow any metrical composition.
— Md. Ziaul Haque
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is the supreme proof of a man being prosaic that he always insists on poetry being poetical.
— G.K. Chesterton
The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.
— Stephen King
He sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.
— G.K. Chesterton
You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.
— Keith Carter
The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.
— Vincent Starrett
All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
— Cesare Pavese
prosaic, pedestrian example, but everything
— Daniel C. Dennett
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
— Francois Rabelais
The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.
— Jeanette Winterson
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
— Henry James
You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.
— William McDonough
I was never meant to sit at home.
— Tina Ambani
Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.
— Chris Bohjalian
The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.
— David Frost
In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
— Noah Feldman
Don't stop learning. A time will come when your dreams will go global and you will turn and laugh at how local you've been. Start local anyway!
— Israelmore Ayivor
The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.
— Henry David Thoreau
In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss.
— G.K. Chesterton
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
— Jan Morris
the perhaps rather prosaic truth that law is an imperfect yet indispensable vehicle by which both to conserve and transform society
— Raymond Wacks
No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.
— William Shatner
The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.
— Paul Allen
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.
— Patricia T. O'Conner
thinking: a rather prosaic, low-tech concept, easily forgotten and routinely underrated. But
— Margaret Heffernan
