Corny Quotes - Page 4

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

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Dancing is still, for me, one of those things that no matter when I do it and it sounds corny and cliche, but time stands still. I could literally dance for hours and hours on end and not realize that I've been dancing for hours and hours on end. In the right setting, I could literally dance all day and have a blast. It seems like one moment to me. There's nothing else going on, and it's the ultimate release.

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

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

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

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.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

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

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

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.

It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

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

I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.

When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make a documentary, a documentary makes you. It really does.

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.