quotes about Triviality
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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.
-- Deborah Eisenberg -
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
-- Eugene Ionesco -
I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.
-- Henry R. Luce -
Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
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We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.
-- Neil Postman -
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
-- Nevil ShuteSource : Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”
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“There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.”
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“The family is the American fascism.”
Source : "Family Fever" by Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. June/July 1984.
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“I could say I think coulds are pretty, and you'd say they're only pretty to demons.”