Best 112 quotes in «corny quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

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

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

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.

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

I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

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

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

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

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

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

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

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

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

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.

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.

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.

I'm as corny as Kansas in August.

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.