Corny Quotes - Page 9

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

  Betty Buckley

  Maintenance, Singers

  "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.

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

  Richard Briers

  Roles, Firsts

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• The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Strong, Communication, Data

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• 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

  Song, Circles, Century

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• I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

  Christopher Hampton

  Husband, Thinking, Rivals

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• To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

  John Philip Sousa

  Mean, Average, Mind

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

  Vernor Vinge

  Ideas, Progress, Should

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• It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey.

  Urijah Faber

  Journey, Mma, Sound

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• People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't. But I can pretty much find humor in anything. That is a necessary part of life. I don't want to say laughter is healing, because it sounds corny, but it's a release.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Laughter, Healing, People

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• We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

  Tony La Russa

  Trying, Facts, Alive

  "A postgame interview with Tony La Russa". MLB interview, stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com. October 28, 2011.

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• You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, Enjoy Life, The End Of The Day

  "Revolutionary Road - Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.

  Ice Cube

  Real, Track, Comedy

  "Ice Cube's Return to Gangsta". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. January 15, 2014.

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

  Ezra Koenig

  Internet, Seeming, Hard

  "Vampire Weekend" by Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2013.

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• I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

  Walt Disney

  Heart, Stories, Enough

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• My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Jobs, Hockey

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• I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

  John Mayall

  Musician, Becoming

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

  Chris Webber

  Games, Feels

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

  Trisha Goddard

  Exercise, Use, Medication

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• To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Player, Tennis

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• You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man.

  John Wayne

  Men, Thinking, Able

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• I want to be loved. Oh, it's SO CORNY, isn't it?! But I just want to be loved by a bloke that loves ME! I want to feel special, you know. I almost feel guilty for feeling it.

  Rae Earl

  Special You, Feelings, Want

  Rae Earl (2016). “My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir”, p.9, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Rap, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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.

  Ian Fleming

  Hero, Doe, Way

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• I think dates considered super corny and cheesy - whether it's going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be competitive and just have fun with each other - those always make the most memorable dates!

  Aimee Teegarden

  Fun, Memorable, Golf

  "Beautiful Wave Star Aimee Teegarden Talks Surfer Boys And More!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. May 12, 2012.

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• 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

  Disappointment, Giving, Risk

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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