Corny Quotes - Page 12

• The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it’s not what’s in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. It’s not even what’s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, it’s what’s in your heart.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Heart, Mind, Sound

  Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

  Michael Herr

  Cities, Vegas, Feelings

  Guy Peellaert, Michael Herr (1986). “The big room”

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• Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

  Lori Loughlin

  Fashion, Married, Designer

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• I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them...It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• 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.

  Michael Aspel

  Sound, Mouths, Like You

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

  Beth Gibbons

  Sound, Aviation, Bristol

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Sound, Acoustics, Instruments

  FaceBook post by Giorgio Moroder from Nov 29, 2013

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• A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

  Suzi Quatro

  Sound, Bass, Woods

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• From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sound, Shooting, Firsts

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

  Annette Funicello

  Decades, Predictable

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• Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Lying, Real, People

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• We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

  William Weld

  Money, Race, Ceilings

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• I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Cities, Long, Fads

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• I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

  Stephen Malkmus

  America, People, Musician

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• Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.

  Sue Kelly

  Jobs, Small Business, Economy

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

  Cobi Jones

  Track, Fields, Banned

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• In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

  Ruth First

  Book, Progress, Lists

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• Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Giving, Humanity

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

  Walther Bothe

  Mean, Example, Nucleus

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• 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

  Numbers, World, Fit

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

  Johnny Ball

  Children, Tvs, Shows

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• The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.

  Harold Lloyd

  Pain, States

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• Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Climbing, Priorities In Life, Helping

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• 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

  Doe, Use, Should

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