Corny Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Men, Ignorant, Divine

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.114, New Directions Publishing

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• I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Monsters, Useless

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• The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Differences

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• 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.

  Michael Ende

  Thinking, Mystery, Granted

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

  Brian Eno

  Sound, Mood

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• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Swings

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• I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

  Howard Nemerov

  Thinking, Innovation, Literature

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• Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

  George Jean Nathan

  Eye, Men, Important

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• My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Government, Hacking, Action

  "They call me a criminal" by Kevin Mitnick, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

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• Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

  Maria Mitchell

  Nature, Science, Law

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

  J. Paul Getty

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Hard Times

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• 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

  Truth, Philosopher, Programming

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• The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Rights, Knowing, Mind

  La Rebelion de las Masas ch. 1 (1930)

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• Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Birthday, Faith, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Building Up, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

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• Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

  John Fowles

  Pretending, Duty, Critical

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

  Carly Fiorina

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

  "Battle for the Senate on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

  Federico Fellini

  Play, May, Dice

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

  Martin Feldstein

  Thinking, Judgement, Sound

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Essence, Fiction Stories

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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

  Carl Perkins

  Simple, Sound, Rockabilly

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

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• People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.

  George Steinbrenner

  Agreement, People, Doe

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• I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

  Stan Getz

  Sound, Use, Bass

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• When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Guy, Competitors

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