I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up… — Sharon Creech 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
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
Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world.… — Laura Harring Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is… — Sadao Araki Copy Share Image
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I was so frivolous for so many years. It was so much fun, but you feel guilty about the brain energy you… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new… — Charles Duhigg 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
I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships. — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his… — Russell Pearce Copy Share Image
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous,… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress,… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
“A defense [of religion] is needed because none has been forthcoming. The discussion has been ceded to men who regard religious belief… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
