Trivial Quotes

401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea,… — Andrea Dworkin
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. — Federico Fellini
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial.… — Mark Haddon
Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication… — Jaron Lanier
The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook,… — Simon Mainwaring
Of course it's trivial, but then most things are. — John Malkovich
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in… — Karl Marx
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. — Ethel Merman
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. — Kevin Mitnick
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times. — Michael Morpurgo
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. — George Jean Nathan
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of… — Howard Nemerov
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually… — Eugene O'Neill
When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is… — Bill O'Reilly
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried… — Barack Obama
It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great… — Talcott Parsons
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. — Bertrand Russell
Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do… — Nick Stahl
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. — Tom Stoppard
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot… — J. Michael Straczynski
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to… — George Wald
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and… — Max Weber
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly… — Mary Wollstonecraft
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. — Virginia Woolf
Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean… — Evgeny Morozov

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