Corny Quotations

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

I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn't wear any underwear.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

I think what's cool about Slayer is no matter how old their albums are, it's the one band to me that their sound is immortal. It never sounds corny to me. You can go back and listen to some Pantera and Metallica albums, and you're like, 'OK, great music.' But Slayer, you go back, and they always sound fresh and hard as hell.

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

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

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

I love playing serious! That's a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can't just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently.

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

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

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

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.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market - not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It's never been seen before.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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

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

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

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

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

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.

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

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

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.

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

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.

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

I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

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

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

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

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

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

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?!?

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?

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

I was raised to ignore it. It was something my mother's generation saw as an embarrassment. It was corny and archaic and not pushed as something an up-and-coming musician wanted to learn. My mother wanted me to write Broadway shows.

I got little bumps and chills when I saw my uniform, the (number) 13 Rodriguez, and I saw red, white and blue. As corny as it sounds, I go back to my brother (Victor) who's fought in war and is a 30-year vet of the U.S. Air Force. It makes me very proud.

I got little bumps and chills when I saw my uniform, No. 13, Rodriguez, and I saw the USA, the red, white and blue, as corny as that sounds.

I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.

I hate to sound corny when I use the word but -- where my roots are,

He'd tell his little corny jokes, we'd tell ours. Fans laugh, no big deal. But you tell one about Tennessee they think it's insulting or something, ... You'll never hear me complain about somebody telling a little corny joke about our team.

I think it's corny and cheesy for a dude to holler at a girl. That's just disrespectful in my mind. I may talk to girls, but I don't hang with girls; I don't date girls. I haven't really found anybody.

Yeah, and I think if you don't have that support system behind you, regardless of what that is, whether it's what your living with at home, or whatever. It's so hard to put into words...I re-established my faith in the belief system, which is important, and I'm trying not to sound corny here, but that helps, and also what you got going on at home is very important. If your not stable at home, your definitely not going to be stable when you head out on the road.

To me, racism is so played out and corny and stupid, especially in music, where you now have Nelly doing songs with Tim McGraw, on the hit single 'Over and Over.' Anyone who thinks about that just needs to get a life.

This sounds like a corny cliche, but knowledge is power. ... You can accept more than one type of person.

Prior to that, it was probably more often thought of as that old fuddy-duddy music, that corny old stuff. What we do is corny, too, but it's fun to do. And just because something is corny doesn't mean it doesn't have meaning or significance.

After listening to my heart and my gut, two things that have served me pretty well in the past, I've decided I'll be leaving 'Today' at the end of May. ... It may sound kind of corny but I really feel that we've become friends through the years.

As corny as it sounds, this is really a fantasy come true,

Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

It's pinch-yourself stuff, isn't it? ... Statistically it's probably been the best era in the club's history and of course that makes me feel good. But corny as it sounds, I'm honestly more pleased for the players. That's why I do the job primarily and that's why getting to the grand final this year has been the best yet because we've been through some pretty dark times along the way.

It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

How corny would it be to call it Sting's Honey? You'd be leaving yourself open to a lot of jokes.

How corny would it be to call it Sting's Honey? ... You'd be leaving yourself open to a lot of jokes.

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

Space is going to be commonplace.

I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.

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:

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.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

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.

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

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

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.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

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.

A girlfriend had caught me in a compromising situation with another girl, ... In trying to defuse the situation, I said 'please, stop in the name of love,' as corny as that may sound. Then I said 'Wow, did you hear that cash register? That's how things happen, songs come out of nowhere.

All these years went by and nobody came up with any ideas that were anything but corny and kind of low grade so we just decided probably that wasn't going to happen.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

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

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

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

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

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.

I'm as corny as Kansas in August.

It was a moment [when I had found God] that so transformed my life. And I say this is so corny, but it was like the grass was green, the sky was blue. And I can't begin to articulate - as much as they say I'm a wordsmith - what really happened.

For the first time [with the Bible] - I know this sounds so corny - but I knew love. I had such an empty love tank. I had all the questions to life that didn't make sense. Two and two didn't add up to four. From my father's death - if you loved me, why did you leave me? Why did you kill yourself? And so when this happened, it took my life in a completely different direction.

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

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.