Trivial Quotes
401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors
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I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.
— Unknown Author
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Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier…
— Peter Thiel
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
— Larry Wall
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There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the…
— James Burnham
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The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally…
— C S Forester
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Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.
— John Paul DeJoria
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Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of…
— John Paul DeJoria
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Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.
— Robert McKee
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Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the…
— Luci Shaw
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The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel…
— Abe Burrows
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True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits…
— Rick Bayan
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The truth is I couldn’t care less about needing a supposed 'thigh gap;. It’s just another tool of manipulation that other people are trying to…
— Robyn Lawley
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All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble.
— Arnold Beichman
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Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor…
— Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to it’s fullest, then good feelings…
— Dan Buettner
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There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with…
— David F. Wells
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As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my…
— Elizabeth Kenny
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a…
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal…
— Nat Friedman
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If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in…
— Jacques Ellul
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Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.
— Hugh Nibley
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The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion…
— Gary L. Francione
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We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if…
— Gary L. Francione
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Children often have been likened to scientists. Both ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Both also ask innumerable questions that seem utterly…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Trivial Quotes
339 authors contributed a total of 401 Trivial Quotes, led by these top contributors: