It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.
It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.
It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.
It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame image had been used and used again. It was the stuff of amateur poetry. And she, having so little experience crafting a story, would be th...
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.
...some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense...
It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should take away her choice of having or not having a child.
It is easier to bear the worries of wandering than to find peace in your hometown, where only the sage can live in a happy house surrounded by trite troubles and daily distractions.
