Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Bennett

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

John Glover

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Paula White

It was a moment [when I had found God] that so transformed my life. And I say this is so corny, but it was like the grass was green, the sky was blue. And I can't begin to articulate - as much as they say I'm a wordsmith - what really happened.

John Fowles

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

John Malkovich

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

Taye Diggs

As corny as it sounds, this is really a fantasy come true,

John Doe

Prior to that, it was probably more often thought of as that old fuddy-duddy music, that corny old stuff. What we do is corny, too, but it's fun to do. And just because something is corny doesn't mean it doesn't have meaning or significance.

Katie Couric

After listening to my heart and my gut, two things that have served me pretty well in the past, I've decided I'll be leaving 'Today' at the end of May. ... It may sound kind of corny but I really feel that we've become friends through the years.

Val Kilmer

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

Sara Gruen

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

Julian Barnes

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

Anders Holm

Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.

Abraham Foxman

This is not a documentary, and nobody's pretending it is.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Andrew Lincoln

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Tina Fey

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

Olivia Hussey

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

Orson Scott Card

I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

Steven Chercover

I think Willamette hates Weyerhaeuser. But that doesn't fit into their fiduciary duty to shareholders. There is nothing stopping Willamette from soliciting another bid.

Henry Silverman

There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy

John King

We feel it?s our duty to do it because it?s God?s work.

Ken Starr

I think it was proper what I did. I think I had a duty to do what I did.

Idi Amin

It is our duty not to squander opportunities for reconciliation, the time for reconciliation has long been here and we have squandered it,

David Mpanga

It is our duty not to let the state off the hook, and we will not concede to do without them.

Robert Walters

The ranch has a duty to make sure its hillside stays on its property.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.