76 Trivial Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 worn out. C. S. Forester

Emotions Worn Everything Crises Out Dreadful Trivial Emotionally Counterfeit Returned Contrast Moved Hollywood England Stark Deeply

I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.' Caprice Bourret

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. Charles Baudelaire

Nature Me Ugly Nothing Consider Monsters Positively Trivial Because Exists Represent Fancy Prefer Useless Satisfies Tedious

If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are trivial compared to jacking up rates on the middle class. Charles Murray

Class Money Rich Would Rates Trivial Up Jack Middle Tax Want Middle Class Tax Rates Really Compared Amount Bring

Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life. Charlotte Rampling

Life Fashion You Change Important Big Glorious Our Our Lives Ourselves Dress Dress-Up About Perceptions Trivial Part Look Industry Important Part How Huge Up Very Big Part Quite Us Creatures Lives Present

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. Clifton Fadiman

Good Memory Good Memory Trivial Trained Forget

In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change. Gary Hamel

History You Change Organization Long Incremental Frantic Only Trivial Long Periods Most Periods Occasional Discover Review The History Of Fiddling Flavors Average Organizations Traumatic Two

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. Iain Banks

You Legal People Situation Society Slippery System Slippery Slope Slope Torture Tortured Trivial Allow Instantly Almost Soon Very Legal System Get Any Being Where Reasons

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 of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things. J. Michael Straczynski

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? Jamie Zawinski

Old Changed System Out Someone Something Trivial New Operating Operating System Because Does Same Just Just Because Them Themselves Should Use Why Thing Basic Application

I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many. John Paul DeJoria

Management Few Pay Pay Attention Every Philosophy Insane Detail Vital Trivial Could Attention Obsessed Over Go Little Ignore Companies Many

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 metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. Karl Marx

Strange First Analysis Extremely Sight Out Abound Trivial Obvious Metaphysical Very Commodity Subtleties Theological Strange Thing Appears Thing Brings

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that. Laura Linney

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy. Lee Smolin

Mistake String String Theory Kind Worthy Trivial Theory Deep Therefore

I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book. Mark Billingham

Best Entertainment Book People Possible Scared Give Something Trivial Performance Readers Does Am End Get Trying Moved Want Wanting Mean Mean People Them Pages Necessarily

I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right. Mark Billingham

Morning You Writing Thought Drive First Important Research Would Details Something Trivial Could Obsessive Lights Hours Most Make Sure Came Traffic Left Began Get Turn Used Even Novels Right Early Set

The people I coach are very successful people, so it's very hard for winners to not constantly win. Even if it's trivial and not worth it, we still want to win - because we love winning. It's a very deep habit. Marshall Goldsmith

The things we obsess about today, in 40 years seem trivial. Michael Beschloss

Today About Seem Trivial Obsess Years Things

Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama. Michael Hastings

Nature People Will Complain President President Obama Obama Superficial Silly About Trivial Sort How Often Media

I used to say I didn't regret dropping out of school because it's what I had to do. But I do feel it. There are certain conversations I feel excluded from. When people talk about Greek history, I just have to sit there and listen. I excuse myself from games of Trivial Pursuit. Neve Campbell

Myself History People Regret School Sit Say Out About Trivial Pursuit Had Dropping Feel Excluded Excuse Talk Because Greek Listen Just Conversations Certain Used Games

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 something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear. Nick Stahl

Hope Good Man Think Would Pretty Magic Something Trivial Had Disappear Like Powers Making Traffic Oh Them Use

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people. Paul Di Filippo

Life Humanity People Related Rule States Topic Must Worthy Archaeology More Trivial Inversely Scholarship Allure Thumb Smallest Importance Most Dearer Affairs Subject Any Often Mean Assigned Things

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