Quotes on Corny

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

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

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.

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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.

I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene - without being corny or sentimental or going overboard.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.

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

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.