Best 112 quotes in «corny quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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

I like you so much it might even be love.

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

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

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”)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Dancing is still, for me, one of those things that no matter when I do it and it sounds corny and cliche, but time stands still. I could literally dance for hours and hours on end and not realize that I've been dancing for hours and hours on end. In the right setting, I could literally dance all day and have a blast. It seems like one moment to me. There's nothing else going on, and it's the ultimate release.

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.

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

Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?