Best 112 quotes in «corny quotes» category

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.

It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

I used to think it was corny to be in love but actually it's corny to lose an awesome woman! Real talk.

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

I want to be loved. Oh, it's SO CORNY, isn't it?! But I just want to be loved by a bloke that loves ME! I want to feel special, you know. I almost feel guilty for feeling it.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Maybe I'm corny, but I'm a big believer in second chances.

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

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

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

No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

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

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.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

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.

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

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.

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

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.