Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive.… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I… — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
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
I think that's one of the major overriding issues of the day, to deal with frivolous lawsuits. I think it creates a… — Rudy Giuliani 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
If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for… — Saul Griffith Copy Share Image
I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so… — Bernard Malamud 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
So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
If you can take something as ultimately frivolous [as a comic book] in the cosmic scale of things in the universe and… — Matt Fraction 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
So our ego has to be seen. It is to be watched in a witness state, how it works and how it… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all. In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change. But… — Rob Brezsny 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
In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
