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Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here. -- American McGee
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become. -- Margaret Atwood
It sounds trite, but I like telling stories. -- Rebecca Hall
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine. -- Portia de Rossi
It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate. -- Peter Krause
It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens. -- Nigella Lawson
I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are. -- John Singleton
Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days. -- Miuccia Prada
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow. -- Jan Karon
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. -- Wendell Phillips
It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing. -- Salma Hayek
In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments. -- Kate Bush
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. -- Yanni
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. -- Warren Rudman
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. -- Joanna Cassidy
When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise. -- Doug Liman
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. -- Robert E. Lee
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. -- Norman Spinrad
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write. -- Khaled Hosseini
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. -- Sherilyn Fenn
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. -- Vince Cable
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. -- Patrick Marber
I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn't love them. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.' -- Samantha Bond
My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball. -- David Duchovny
Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did. -- Gary Jennings
If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller. -- Russell Crowe
Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism. -- Charles Lamb
It may sound trite, but young people really are the future. -- Jane Goodall
Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music! -- Olaf Stapledon
There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting. -- Van Day Truex
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me. -- Albert Einstein
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. -- Henry Fielding
To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true. -- Roddy Doyle
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. -- Ivan Turgenev
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy. -- Charles de Lint
This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits. -- Henri Nouwen
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. -- Lord Chesterfield
there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true. -- Martha Albrand
They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring. -- David Wong
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism. -- Camille Paglia
A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth. -- Ambrose Bierce
The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice -- Jean de la Bruyere
Key statements made by latter-day prophets are not trite clichÃ©s. They are vital counsel to us from the Lord through his prophets. We should ponder and act upon such statements. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world. -- Pema Chodron
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it. -- Anais Nin
I'd like to be a working actor.It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve. -- Anne Hathaway
When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you understand that nobody knows anything and everyone must decide for themselves. -- Sarah Ruhl
Someone is spending their life and their passion and their ingenuity on something that's seemingly potentially trite. But it's what they're doing, and it's what's important to them and what's beautiful to them. -- David Krumholtz
I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times. -- Michelle Stuart
In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies. -- Brian Froud
Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter

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