Corny Quotes - Page 7

• Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Sports, Golf, Enjoy

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• 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

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• I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Truth, Sound, Hearing

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

  Star Jones

  Spiritual, Emotional, Matter

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• I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame

  Ethel Merman

  Character, Dames, Wonderful

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Women, Ideas, Gossip

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females”

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• A few years ago, I had an interest in making things that felt more like "pieces." That was when I was making a lot of stuff that you could call beats, and it dawned on me that I could say much more nuanced, precise things if I tried to make them more composed. It sounds a bit corny, but I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.

  Arca

  Listening, Forget, Interest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.

  Betty MacDonald

  Christian, Witty, Breathing

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• If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

  Holly Black

  People, Killing, Murderer

  Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

  Holly Black

  Funny, Sweet, Coffee

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• I'm a powerful being... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything." "Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.

  Holly Black

  Powerful, Eye, Black

  Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is share the love.' Beep. 'Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.'

  Andy Rooney

  Being Positive, Great Day, Machines

  "Curmudgeon Explains the Throne Speech" by Bill Tieleman, www.straight.com. February 17, 2005.

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• I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.

  Holly Black

  Hate, Envy

  Holly Black (2013). “The Poison Eaters: and Other Stories”, p.178, Small Beer Press

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• He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?" Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it. "A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wise, Peace, Men

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.305, St. Martin's Press

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• If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, “She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness,” you would be right. But I bet you didn’t guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus.

  James Patterson

  Octopus, Rocks, Darkness

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• It's just that, I know how you're unhappy a lot. And, maybe it doesn't help anything, but I wanted you to know that I'm always here. I won't ever let you down―I promise that you can always count on me. Wow, that does sound corny. But you know that, right? That I would never, ever hurt you?" "Yeah Jake. I know that. And I already do count on you, probably more than you know.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hurt, Promise, Unhappy

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• Its okay, Beth.I don't want my life to go back to the way it was before i met you.I thought i had it all,but really i was missing something. feel like a completely different person now.This might sound corny,but i feel like i've been asleep for a long time and you've just woken me up.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Long, Missing, Sound

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.236, Macmillan

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