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

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

— Portia de Rossi

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

— Rebecca Hall

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

— Peter Krause

“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

Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced…

— Marc Andreessen

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness…

— Alanis Morissette

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

— Ed Stoppard

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

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