Corny Quotes

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

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

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

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?!?

Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up.

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

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

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

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

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

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

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.

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

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

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

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

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

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

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

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

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

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

Space is going to be commonplace.

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

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

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.

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

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

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?

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

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

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

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

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.

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

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

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

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

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.

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.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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.

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

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.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

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

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.