Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
So chess is kind of this nice thing that I have no real aspiration for. It's just a frivolous thing I can… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is unfortunately a world that still exists that dismisses fashion as being a little bit frivolous and the people who work… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the… — Conrad Burns Copy Share Image
In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times. — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
The fact that oppressive and corrupt regimes can borrow money in the name of the whole country means that the country's future… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It's not that everything needs to have substance, but when nothing does then you know we're living in a bankrupt society, an… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things.… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I am usually frivolous and fun, but sometimes I can be dead serious in my comments. — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
