“Old cheerful songs about frivolous things that mean nothing to me.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous. — Akiva Goldsman Copy Share Image
“A few stars were approaching and in their brightness I glimpsed a fragment of your vanished soul – cheerful and frivolous, unforgettable.” — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious. — Soren Kierkegaard 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
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. — Iris Murdoch 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
There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Many social critics wag their fingers at what they perceive to be frivolous luxury spending. But that misses the point that consumption… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are… — Geshe Gyeltsen Copy Share Image
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle. — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle. — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in… — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... it would… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
