Trivial Pursuit Quotes

#1. To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

Alan Bennett

#2. 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

#3. Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God.

Paul Washer

#4. Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

Frederick Lenz

#5. that may be a bit of stretch as I'd obviously prefer to play Trivial Pursuit than spend the night in a spider cave or give a hobo a rimjob, but you get the point.

David Thorne

#6. (about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the Arts and Lit non-fiction section)
I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

Nick Hornby

#7. There are two kinds of intelligence in this world. People who are Monopoly smart and people who are Trivial Pursuit smart ... If you're starting your own business, don't even talk to me. But If you need to know who the lead singer of Kajagoogoo is, I'm your guy. His name is Limahl, by the way.

Christian Finnegan

#8. Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

Alfred Adler

#9. Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

Ted Cruz

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

Federico Fellini

#11. And you shouldn't believe all the press about Ouija boards. They can't be used in an exorcism. Trivial Pursuit can, but that's another story.

Seanan McGuire

#12. You know what I'm great at? Trivial Pursuit. What good is that gonna do you in life? It has the word 'trivial' in the name. The game is basically telling you that you pursue trivial things. Trivial - as in not important. Trivial - as in maybe you should've gone to grad school.

Christian Finnegan

#13. [My husband] can beat most anyone in Trivial Pursuit, but only because the game does not include questions like "Where is your wallet?

Amy Sutherland

#14. Axe was a quiet man, six foot four, with piercing blue eyes and curly hair. He was smart and the best Trivial Pursuit player I ever saw. I loved talking to him because of how much he knew. He would come out with answers that would have defied the learning of a Harvard professor.

Marcus Luttrell

#15. Baptizing all containers with an orifice that appeals to their cock is the trivial pursuit of little boys" (23)
(rbt: every "boy" i know has done this at least 15 times
why?)

Tony Duvert

#16. Writing. It's a trivial pursuit, hardly worth the effort, inconsequential on any cosmic level. It's just blood and sweat and guts and bone hauled out of our bodies and fed through a typewriter to slosh all over the platen.

Kim Newman

#17. I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Kevin Youkilis

#18. Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter and an immortal handmaiden to a goddess had a decidedly unfair advantage over Cassandra and Chris. In Life, the only thing that mattered was luck.' (Cassandra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

Donald Hall

#20. To paint that horrible scene, something terrible must have befallen the artist.

Jeff VanderMeer

#21. I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress.

Kristen Bell

#22. The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment.

Mara Liasson

#23. Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#24. We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

Jack Kerouac

#25. By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

Nicholas D. Evans

#26. Lynx, why are you staring at me like that?" she asked. He straightened and shrugged. "I was just thinking how close I came to losing you. Now that I have you, Callie, I can't imagine my life without you."

-Calinda & Lynx

Janelle Taylor

#27. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.

Brene Brown

#28. My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#29. America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.

Buzz Aldrin

#30. Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

Melissa Bank

#31. The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

John Carroll

#32. Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

Peter Weiss

#33. And I remind myself that wherever one finds oneself, home and love is lent to each of us only for a while. We must care for it while it's ours, and cherish its memory once it's gone.

Barbara Mutch

#34. There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.

Lily Tomlin