#trivial

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. ↗

— Hu Shih

#cornell #incidents #language #led #question

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#revolution #shift #suffering #trivial

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... ↗

— Alexander Pope

#love #triviality #love

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#because #complex #different #distinctive #each

I want to import what’s important, and export the trivial out of my life.
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— Jarod Kintz

#import #important #life #trivial #life

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#books #cruel #discussing #dissecting #driving

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#consider #exists #fancy #i #me

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

#good #good memory #memory #trained #trivial

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#dice #enjoys #every #god #good

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#ambitious #brutal #dessert #down #game