Quotes About Triviality

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

The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality.

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

I may be doing nothing to stop the war in Korea, or nothing to balance the budget, or nothing to solve anything, but there'll be a lot of name-calling, there'll be all sorts of headlines!' Lodge pledged. 'The trivial will reach a new place in American politics and believe me: when you consider the place it has had in previous administrations, that is no idle boast!

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day,

When one writes, there's the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

In Guermantes, the narrator, admitted to the Duchesse's society after he has been cured of his infatuation with her, tends to record what he sees and hears, to note the disparity between glamour seen from a distance and the triviality it masks when encountered at close quarters.

Nor till the poets among us can be"literalists ofthe imagination"—aboveinsolence and triviality and can presentfor inspection, "imaginary gardens with realtoads in them," shall we have it.

when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination" --above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it.

Small things amuse small minds.

E strâmt aici, dar ai unde s?-i pierzi min?ile. Nu e prea greu. - E chiar o nimica toat?.

With such and the like fopperies were petty brains troubled.

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!

Like parodies of themselves, theological notions are reflected in the triviality of our lives.

We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.

television's way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography's way of knowing; that television's conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase "serious television" is a contradiction in terms; and that television speaks in only one persistent voice—the voice of entertainment

I will try to demonstrate by concrete example that television's way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography's way of knowing; that television's conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase "serious television" is a contradiction in terms; and that television speaks in only one persistent voice-the voice of entertainment.

It is my object in the rest of this book to make the epistemology of television visible again. I will try to demonstrate by concrete example that television's way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography's way of knowing; that television's conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase "serious television" is a contradiction in terms; and that television speaks in only one persistent voice—the voice of entertainment

Television is at its most trivial and, therefore, most dangerous when its aspirations are high, when it presents itself as a carrier of important cultural conversations.

The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality.

The intellectual irritates the civilized man, just as the adolescent irritates the adult, not because of the audacity of his bright ideas but because of the triviality of his arrogance.

This century has succeeded in turning sex into a trivial activity and an odious topic.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words.