Corny Quotes - Page 6

• It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

  Portia de Rossi

  Sound, Life Is, Private Life

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.

  Norman Spinrad

  Mean, Thinking, Age

  "A Conversation with Norman Spinrad". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

  Patrick Marber

  Writing, Character, Play

  7 Copy quote

• I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Hate, Rocks, Differences

  9 Copy quote

• In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Silence, Sound

  4 Copy quote

• The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

  Tim Bishop

  Unique, Islands, Long

  64 Copy quote

• If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

  Fred Frith

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  7 Copy quote

• I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

  John Mahoney

  Sound, Want, Foreigners

  9 Copy quote

• Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Religious, Intention, Bans

  22 Copy quote

• I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

  Brett Hull

  Thinking, Games, Two

  4 Copy quote

• Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.

  Steven Chu

  Mother, School, Focus

  4 Copy quote

• The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

  Roman Jakobson

  Running, Taken, Giving

  25 Copy quote

• Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.

  William James

  Dream, Formulas, Exception

  74 Copy quote

• The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

  Yahoo Serious

  Stories, Formulas

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

  Thom Gunn

  Trying, Want, Process

  8 Copy quote

• Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Taken, Knowledge, Mind

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Love, Family, Happiness

  19 Copy quote

• In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

  Christopher Fry

  Life, Running, Play

  4 Copy quote

• Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

  Jung Chang

  Travel, Book, Fundamentals

  7 Copy quote

• For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

  Lord Byron

  Country, Hunting, Literature

  'The Age of Bronze' (1823) st. 14

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Truth, Sound, Hearing

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• And to the rest of the world
  God gave you shoes to fit you
  So put 'em on and wear 'em
  Be yourself man, be proud of who you are
  Even if it sounds corny
  Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful

  Eminem

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Rap

  15 Copy quote

• Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

  Kirk Douglas

  Movie, Inspiring, Life Is Like

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

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  Warren Rudman

  People, Sound, May

  9 Copy quote

• A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

  Chet Atkins

  Long, Giving, Alternatives

  61 Copy quote