95 Corny Quotes

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Famous Corny Quotes

I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out. — Jordana Brewster

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey? — J. K. Rowling

Stay crunchy, even in milk. - Joss Whedon

Stay crunchy, even in milk. — Joss Whedon

What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet. — Shel Silverstein

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. — Mark Twain

A crooked cornstalk can have a straight ear. — American Proverbs

If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better. — Jeremy Jackson

Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers, Wannabe MC's, but really good triers, Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored, A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford! — KRS-One

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners! — Roald Dahl

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. — Doug Larson

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. — Anne Bronte

Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it. Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it. — Redman

You gotta school these young macks comin' up today... I mean to be 'frank', they just hot dogs, The girls are relish, and they need to catchup on they pimpin'. — Big Daddy Kane

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. — Sid Caesar

Grover: It’s a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that’s because he’s laughing at me. — Rick Riordan

Short Corny Quotes

  • I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. — Larry Wall
  • Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions. — William James
  • No one dare disturb the sound of silence... — Paul Simon
  • Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks. — Holly Black
  • As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market. — Arthur Godfrey
  • I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time. — Kanye West
  • You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard. — Arthur Godfrey
  • It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. — Oscar Peterson
  • I like you very much. Just as you are. — Helen Fielding
  • Space is going to be commonplace. — Christa McAuliffe

Corny Image Quotes

Not Corny Quotes

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense. — Wale

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America. — John Lawson

I’ve lived the literal meaning of the ‘land of the free’ and ‘home of the brave.’ It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn’t take off his hat, it pisses me off. I’m not one to be quiet about it, either. — Chris Kyle

We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones. — Gerald Caiafa

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me. — Justin Bieber

I know it sounds corny, but I’d love to improve people’s lives, especially socially… Making the world more open is not an overnight thing. It’s a ten-to-fifteen-year thing. — Mark Zuckerberg

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this. — Eminem

On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life. — Tom Selleck

Joe DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career can not be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country. — Ted Williams

It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was something I really understood, the need and want for connection, and fun, and it not needing to be sympathetic, just sort of good fun. — Mia Wasikowska

Inspirational Corny Quotes

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

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause. — David Talbot

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. — Edward Victor Appleton

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. — Tom Peters

Really Corny Quotes

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world. — Enrique Iglesias

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!? — Bruce Sterling

Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up. — Karlie Kloss

It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure. — Kate Moss

You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man. — John Wayne

To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down - listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends. — Austin Mahone

You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever. — Sam Donaldson

But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens. — Fred Astaire

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more. — Glynis Johns

I always thought I'd look corny in the type of rap video in the club with girls and all that type of stuff. I just didn't think I could really pull that off. We always think it's more fun and better just to go outside the box and to use our videos to show cool concepts. — Mac Miller

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More Corny Quotes

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

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur — Nicholas D. Kristof

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly. — Dorothy E. Denning

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. — Ellen DeGeneres

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers. — John Shimkus

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

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you. — Shel Silverstein

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn. — William Banting

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

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. — Roman Jakobson

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind. — Jean Froissart

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about. — John Goodman

It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky. — Caroline Dhavernas

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. — Earl Sweatshirt

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel. — Bobby Jindal

U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products. — John Shimkus

I used to think it was corny to be in love but actually it's corny to lose an awesome woman! Real talk. — Godfrey

You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process. — Leonardo DiCaprio

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since. — Kathy Bates

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up. — Suzi Quatro

Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, that-s your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter. — Dalton Trumbo

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

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. — Andrew Wyeth

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

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