Corny Quotes - Page 13

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

  Trisha Goddard

  Exercise, Use, Medication

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• 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 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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• 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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• When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

  Walt Disney

  Being Yourself, Art, Book

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