If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco…

Generally, successful fads have some kind of play value, like the Frisbee, Slinky, Silly Putty, my Wallwalker. They're generally inexpensive items, impulse items. They…

— Ken Hakuta

If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with…

— Daniel Negreanu

Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value…

— Nelson Mandela

“It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull…

— Anais Nin

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

— Ivan Turgenev

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

— Lord Chesterfield

“When I thought of how I’d been living, how I’d been approaching life, it was all so trite, so miserably pointless. Unimaginative middle-class rubbish,…

— Haruki Murakami

And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from…

— Alexander Smith

“He was trying to do contrite, which is a combination of con and trite .”

— Andy Hamilton

In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.

— Kate Bush

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

— Rebecca Hall

Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.

— Anonymous

I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.

— John Singleton

Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.

— Bobcat Goldthwait