Best 112 quotes in «corny quotes» category

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.

So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

Algebra-Read pages 7-14. Do the odd numbered problems. From what I've seen, they're all pretty odd.

An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to deal with the fragmentation of our self and assess the deconstruction of our identity, a corny incident could easily capsize our being. A misinterpretation of facts and expectations may perturb our awareness and unsettle our perception. When “I” and “me” don’t get along very well, the road to oneness may be very often bumpy. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

Ah, fairest maiden, thine beauty doth maketh mine loins stir, and mine cup runneth over.

I like you so much it might even be love.

God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them. Be yourself man, be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, don’t let no one tell you, you ain’t beautiful.

I do not recall our Lord ever saying one could not be 'cool'. It is only a problem if one esteems 'coolness' above that which is righteous and true, which is, when we give it its way, really what many of us do. 'Coolness' is too transient to be of any real and meaningful, lasting significance, and it is often in great conflict with one being one's most honest, most vulnerable self. That, and in reality, some of the coolest people are actually those who least concern themselves with being cool anyway, those who make 'trying to be cool' less evident.

I flipped it over: Ping Xi's business card with his name, number, e-mail address, and the corniest quotation I'd ever read: "Every act of creation is an act of destruction.—Pablo Picasso

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

When People Want To Impress Someone By Not Being Themselves It Wont Work, because You Have To Be You, Everyone Else Is Taken

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.