Quotes of Trite - somelinesforyou

“ Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ”

- Willa Cather

“ The art of government is not to let me grow stale. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman. ”

- Liv Ullmann

“ The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked. ”

- Unknown

“ There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. ”

- Irving Berlin

“ I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music. ”

- Andy Gibb

“ Thus the great gulf between physical and psychological research persists only when we acquiesce in our habitual stereotyped conceptions. ”

- Ernst Mach

“ What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings — they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong… ”

- Norman Douglas

“ The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind… ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking. ”

- Arthur Bloch

“ Katrina's dramatizing the way in which our troops have been overstretched, overused and the need to find some way to reduce their presence in Iraq. ”

- Carl Levin

“ I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live. ”

- Greta Garbo

“ We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world. ”

- Enrique Iglesias

“ I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving. ”

- Shirley Manson

“ I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do. ”

- Diane Kruger

“ A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read. To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. ”

- Thomas Dekker

“ As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market. ”

- Arthur Godfrey

“ I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. ”

- Alexander Payne

“ We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired. ”

- Judith Guest

“ The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked. ”

- Unknown

“ The one I fought the best was the last one at Yankee Stadium. After 15 rounds I was not tired and felt I could've fought 15 more. ”

- Ken Norton

“ I am tired of Democrats walking away from Bill Clinton and Al Gore. ”

- John Edwards

“ I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way. ”

- Knute Rockne

“ I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist. ”

- John Glover

“ I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Those who don't like it complain of the same-old, same-old: stale conceptions of marriage set in stale story lines, in which Daisy the dog has the most interesting expressions of the entire crew. ”

- Kathleen Turner

“ I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped. ”

- Tanith Lee

“ I'm tired, but proud. ”

- Norman Rockwell
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