Trivium Quotes

People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love. (Natalie Portman)
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. View quote
Max Lerner
I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut's five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me. View quote
Rick Riordan
One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia. View quote
Lynn Abbey
I'm always trolling for trivia. View quote
Lynn Abbey
I think I'm a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I'm curious. View quote
Adam Rodriguez
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. View quote
Dee Hock
Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. View quote
Dan Simmons
Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the department of trivia. (John Banville)
One of the most important things was from a patient who said to me what a pity it was that he had to wait until now, when he was riddled with death, to learn how to live. And I have used that phrase many times: hoping that if you introduce people, in an appropriate way, to their mortality that might change the way they live and allow them to trivialise the trivia in their life. View quote
Irvin D. Yalom
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing. View quote
Vikram Seth
Little wonder that the dumbing down of the political discourse, the attack ads and war rooms reign triumphant. The fifth estate is an enabler in this addiction to political trivia in place of reasoned debate. View quote
Elizabeth May
There were moments - when Jeopardy came on, in the car during radio trivia challenges, or for practically any question I couldn't answer in any subject - that Rogerson simply amazed me. I started to seek out facts, just to stump him, but it never worked. He was that sharp. View quote
Sarah Dessen
From such trivia, I believe my soul was born. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning. View quote
Andy Borowitz
I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit. View quote
Norton Juster
The outcry surrounding the public disclosure of the project had taken only three months to die, this-thought Jocundra-a telling commentary upon the spongelike capacity of the American consciousness to absorb miracles, digest them along with the ordinary whey provided by the media, and reduce them to half-remembered trivia. View quote
Lucius Shepard
Most professional women can recount ‘horror stories' about discrimination they have suffered during their careers. My stories include social trivia as well as grand trauma. But some less common forms of discrimination came my way when, in mid-career, I married a colleague and we joined our professional lives just as fame (though not fortune) hit him. I watched as he was manufactured into an architectural guru before my eyes and, to some extent, on the basis of our joint work and the work of our firm. View quote
Denise Scott Brown
The social trivia (what Africans call petty apartheid) continue too: ‘wives' dinners' (‘We'll just let the architects meet together, my dear'); job interviews where the presence of ‘the architect's wife' distressed the board; dinners I must not attend because an influential member of the client group wants ‘the architect' as her date; Italian journalists who ignore Bob's request that they address me because I understand more Italian than he does; the tunnel vision of students toward Bob; the ‘so you're the architect!' to Bob, and the wellmeant ‘so you're an architect too?' to me. (Denise Scott Brown)
It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames. View quote
Clifford Stoll
People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia. View quote
Allan Sloan
I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!' View quote
Charlotte Arnold
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. View quote
Jack Prelutsky