#trite

It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#appealing #becomes #been #go #hurt

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

#back #ball #been #being #brotherhood

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#life #like #something #sounds #t-shirt

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

#conviction #criticism #honest #honest man #honesty

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#creed #fanaticism #fashionable #multiplication #table

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#mine #private #private life #sounds #trite

I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are. ↗

— John Singleton

#how #i #lives #make #passion

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

#because #been #debates #difference #explosive

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

#based #because #circumstance #coming #could

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

#culture #globalization #gotten #kind #me