Corny Quotes - Page 17

• If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

  William Bennett

  Easy, Vicious, Ifs

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• My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Daughter, Teacher, Greatest Gifts

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

  Justin Verlander

  Talking, Guy, Listening

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• In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a dream," to be corny about it. It's implied with eyes wide open, rather than asleep. But I'm not a philosopher to explain myself. I wish I could. Maybe that's why I'm a musician.

  Tom Verlaine

  Dream, Eye, Wish

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• On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.

  Tom Selleck

  Stupid, Feelings, Sound

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

  James Stewart

  Country, Fighting, People

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• But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

  Fred Astaire

  Attitude, Thinking, Corn

  "Steps in Time" by Fred Astaire, (pp. 6-7), 1959.

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• It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be living in a place where it's easy to live, easy to drive to the airport, easy to go pick up something at the supermarket and to have a circle of friends. Those were my goals in 1998, not to be queen of photography but to make a cultural adjustment to the West. And those are still more important goals to me than professional ones right now.

  Andrea Modica

  Photography, Queens, Circles

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• I used to think it was corny to be in love but actually it's corny to lose an awesome woman! Real talk.

  Godfrey

  Real, Thinking, Used

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