1.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
Franz Boas
2.
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be
Hjalmar Branting
3.
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
George Carlin
4.
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.
Karlie Kloss
5.
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?!?
Bruce Sterling
6.
Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
William James
7.
I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.
Enrique Iglesias
9.
That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
Carl Perkins
10.
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
Robert Smithson
12.
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.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
13.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato Tasso
14.
Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
15.
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
Ethel Merman
16.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
Samuel Butler
17.
The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.
Harold Lloyd
18.
It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
Peter Krause
19.
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
Giorgio Moroder
20.
I used to think it was corny to be in love but actually it's corny to lose an awesome woman! Real talk.
Godfrey
21.
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
22.
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Cass Sunstein
24.
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.
George Saunders
25.
You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.
Glynis Johns
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If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
William Bennett
27.
There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.
Betty Buckley
28.
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?
Jamie Zawinski
29.
The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.
Cobi Jones
30.
I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'
Dolly Parton
31.
Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
Beth Gibbons
32.
It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.
Wynonna Judd
33.
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.
Jorge Luis Borges
34.
It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.
Ezra Koenig
35.
I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.
Tony Robbins
36.
Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.
Les Claypool
37.
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
David Antin
38.
And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.
Terrence Howard
39.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles
40.
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.
Yahoo Serious
42.
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.
Thom Gunn
43.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein
44.
It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.
Josiah Warren
45.
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
Stephen Malkmus
47.
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Vernor Vinge
48.
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
John Mahoney
49.
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.
Sherilyn Fenn
50.
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.
Ted Nelson