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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• 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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• 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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• I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

  Mark Hamill

  Stars, War, People

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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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• 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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• Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Christmas, Religious

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Dec 23, 2012

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Black And White, Pet, Photograph

  Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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• Spiritual balance is the ability to remain happy, to not be hostile to your neighbor when they are being hostile, and not to get caught up in the trivia.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Balance

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• I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.

  George Michael

  Ideas, Perspective, Confusing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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!

  Charlotte Arnold

  Character, Boys, Games

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• 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.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Children, Nuts

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, Generations, Safari

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• When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.

  Neil Postman

  Baby, People, Risk

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.129, Penguin

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