In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff…

If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is a popular…

— Shankar Mahadevan

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on…

— Samantha Bond

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

— Henry Fielding

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

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

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