Corny Quotes - Page 12

• Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

  Holly Black

  Funny, Sweet, Coffee

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

  Holly Black

  People, Killing, Murderer

  Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.

  Betty MacDonald

  Christian, Witty, Breathing

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• I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

  Jim Harrison

  Love, Disappointment, Tired

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• I like you very much. Just as you are.

  Helen Fielding

  I Like You, Romantic Love, Movie Love

  "Bridget Jones's Diary". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

  Paul Newman

  Home, Sound, Hamburgers

  "Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward". Book by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, 1988.

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• You're the love of my life. I don't care how corny that sounds. You're the start of it, and the end of it. And you're the best of it.

  Nora Roberts

  Love Of My Life, Sound, Care

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• We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Sight, Personality

  The Common Reader (1925) "The Modern Essay"

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• Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Hard Work, Matter

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Matter, Photographer

  Brett Abbott, Edward Weston, J. Paul Getty Museum (2005). “Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.60, Getty Publications

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• No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

  Max Weber

  Thinking, Age, Months

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.135, Routledge

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• 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.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Kids, Married, Achieve

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

  Bill Toomey

  Olympics, Steroid, Banned

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• Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Mean, Soul

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.224, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Birthday, Women, Thinking

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• While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Women, Ideas, Gossip

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females”

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• My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

  David Duchovny

  Past, Focus, Feelings

  Interview with Lawrence Grobel, www.playboy.com. December 1998.

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• As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Literature, Faces, Mysterious

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.43

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• Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

  Bette Davis

  Years, Sound, Location

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• Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

  Jean Cocteau

  Jobs, Light, Done

  "A Call to Order". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1926.

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• I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

  Eric Clapton

  Mean, Guitar, People

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• Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

  Willa Cather

  Forgiveness, Fall, Dark

  Willa Cather (1938). “The novels and stories of Willa Cather ...”

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

  George Carlin

  Needs, Ovation, Genuine

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, War, Events

  "Quote Junkie: War and Patriotism". Book by Hagopian Institute, p.3, March 12, 2008.

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• Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Banality, Supreme

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4298, Delphi Classics

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