Perfunctory Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or… — Ted Solotaroff
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates… — Michael Leunig
When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is… — Sol LeWitt
I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does… — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate,… — Lewis Mumford
You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice… — Skitch Henderson
Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught… — Nick Morgan
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself. — Thomas Frank
It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory… — Rob Sheffield
I donâ€™t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a whileâ€”just once in a whileâ€”there was at least… — J D Salinger
I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory,… — Martin Amis
Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on… — Alan Huffman
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems… — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back… — The X-Files
When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have… — Daniel Hannan

Who Wrote These Perfunctory Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Perfunctory Quotes as follows: