Quotes About Triteness

#1. Triteness is the penalty of appropriation.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

Evelyn Waugh

#3. Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

Louise Imogen Guiney

#4. The very triteness of it seemed to ensure its likelihood.

Michael Chabon

#5. The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. - Annie Dillard

Austin Kleon

#6. And because Scarlet loved pancakes ... That's what he would do. Make pancakes and flee.

Chelsea Fine

#7. You can absolutely drive through an atmospheric bomb test and not be affected.

Annie Jacobsen

#8. It's a good idea to be in the physical presence of the enlightened teacher because it's not physical. You can hear the ocean from quite a ways away, but if you're standing right in front of it, it's easier.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

Tracy Chapman

#10. What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

Evan Davis

#11. I'm a method actor.

Seann William Scott

#12. Don't try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience - every reader is a different person.

William Zinsser

#13. The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

Leonard Cohen

#14. I love the eyebrow pencils. I do my brows every day. I won't leave my house without my brows! My beauty disaster from childhood was trying to look like Kate Moss and plucking all my brows off.

Olivia Wilde