I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

— Timothy Gowers

I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to…

— John Paul DeJoria

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

— Johnny Ball

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

— Samuel Smiles

I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that…

— Susan Minot

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

— Hilda Doolittle

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

— Sarah Monette

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

— Anonymous

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

— Thomas Carlyle

A lot of people pass off adolescent depression as something trivial.

— Lacey Sturm

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

— Megan McCafferty

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

— Aldo Leopold

“...anything I do is trivial and meaningless because I'm not in a relationship and I don't have children.”

— Dolly Alderton

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

— David D. Burns