Quotes on Corny

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

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.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

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.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

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