Corny Quotes - Page 8

• It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Kids, Married, Achieve

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

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• No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

  Max Weber

  Thinking, Age, Months

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.135, Routledge

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• Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Matter, Photographer

  Brett Abbott, Edward Weston, J. Paul Getty Museum (2005). “Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.60, Getty Publications

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• Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Hard Work, Matter

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Sight, Personality

  The Common Reader (1925) "The Modern Essay"

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• You're the love of my life. I don't care how corny that sounds. You're the start of it, and the end of it. And you're the best of it.

  Nora Roberts

  Love Of My Life, Sound, Care

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• I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

  Paul Newman

  Home, Sound, Hamburgers

  "Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward". Book by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, 1988.

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• I like you very much. Just as you are.

  Helen Fielding

  I Like You, Romantic Love, Movie Love

  "Bridget Jones's Diary". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... 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

  Love, Disappointment, Tired

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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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• This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that close; somehow there's been an immediate bonding between total strangers. We share each other's triumphs, and when one of us gets hurt, we all bleed - it's corny, I know, but it's true. I've never experienced anything like this before. It's great. It turns up the heat in life.

  Johnny Cash

  Hurt, Brother, People

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• As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

  Cass Sunstein

  Race, Matter, Segregation

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• It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

  Hjalmar Branting

  League, Enthusiastic, Protagonists

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• Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so hokey anyhow.

  Richard Meltzer

  Depth, Might, Enough

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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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• The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

  Libby Houston

  Plato, Land, Radio

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