Quotes of: Triviality Keyword

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

Elizabeth Warren

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

Paul Henderson

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Chuck Eddy

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Mary McCarthy

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Max Beerbohm

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Emily Blunt

Riggan: I'm the answer to a fucking Trivial Pursuit question

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

Ham on Rye

Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.

Richard Armitage

It is the small trivial things in life that makes a human happy, like opening a pickle jar.

KanyaACoffman

Being lesbian isn't a way of life, it's a trivial attribute that doesn't change your character.

Lisa Wheeler

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

Allegra Huston

Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.

Stacy London

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Federico Fellini

The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.

Simon Schama

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.

Life

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

W. H. Auden

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

Lee Smolin

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

Elsa Maxwell