Trivia Quotes

• In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Nature, Accomplishment, Miracle

  "The Wisdom of Wilderness". Life magazine, December 22, 1967.

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• 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.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Book, Teaching, Reading

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• 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.

  Max Lerner

  Lying, Moving, Bed

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• I feel the need... the need for speed.

  Tom Cruise

  Movie, Gun, Great Year

  FaceBook post by Tom Cruise from Jan 24, 2013

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• My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

  Winston Groom

  Life, Motivational, Movie

  "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

  Clint Eastwood

  Movie, Thinking, Fire

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• In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clear Goals, Excellence, Loyal

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• From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Believe, Soul, Born

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• Anything television trivia I'm good at. But when you're on your couch, you're really good at it, but when you're standing there, it's probably scary.

  Sarah Silverman

  Scary, Television, Couches

  "Sarah Silverman talks boobs, and answers our 11 questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Im always trolling for trivia.

  Lynn Abbey

  Literature

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• What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

  Frederick Franck

  Spiritual, Men, Light

  Frederick Franck (1974). “Pilgrimage to now/here”

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• People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.

  Scott Berkun

  People, Giving, Priorities

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• I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

  David Shrigley

  Life And Death, Want, Kind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed -- we are going somewhere. By focusing our efforts to a single point, we achieve the greatest results. The first rule of success, and the one that supercedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

  Michael Korda

  Husband, Keys, Doors

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• One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

  Lynn Abbey

  Passion, Historical, Literature

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• NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.

  Andy Borowitz

  Black, Cain, Republican

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jan 11, 2012

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• In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Clear Goals, Kaizen, Loyal

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• The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

  Molly Harper

  Brain, Useless, May

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't speak if you don't have to about trivia. The time for joking comes because of the trust, and you have to earn the trust. So, I don't alibi for anything, and I'll take the heat. That's the other thing. Don't let them take the heat. We take the heat.

  Phil Ramone

  Heat, Speak, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In a fast-paced world, today's popular brand could be tomorrow's trivia question.

  D. Wayne Calloway

  Today, World, Tomorrow

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• People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.

  Natalie Portman

  Heart, People, Capable

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• I think I'm a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I'm curious.

  Adam Rodriguez

  Thinking, Nerd, Curious

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• By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.

  Matthew Fox

  Gratitude, Cutting, Awe And Wonder

  "The Reinvention of Work". Book by Matthew Fox, New York: Harper, p. 128, 1994.

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• To preach the Bible as 'the handbook for life,' or as the answer to every question, rather than as the revelation of Christ, is to turn the Bible into an entirely different book. This is how the Pharisees approached Scripture, as we can see clearly from the questions they asked Jesus. For the Pharisees, the Scriptures were a source of trivia for life's dilemmas.

  Michael Horton

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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