Cornfield Quotes

#1. A child's laughter is the greatest sound in the world. A child's laughter in a cornfield is the creepiest sound in the world. --

John Buckler

#2. I wasn't raised to let a woman walk through a dimly lit parking lot alone. Wasn't born in a cornfield, you know."
Velia turned. "No, I didn't know. So, you're quite a gentleman. Don't we sound like a good pair - the devil woman and the gentleman?

Mary J. McCoy-Dressel

#3. Joe, my guardian and a man of few words, once said about Lizzie, "That girl could talk the ears off a cornfield.

Sharon Creech

#4. If only the world were as simple as baseball in a cornfield." - 2004 guestbook entry, Field of Dreams movie site

Dwier Brown

#5. I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office.

Mike Pence

#6. The distance between Mooreland in 1965 and a city like San Francisco in 1965 is roughly equivalent to the distance starlight must travel before we look up casually from a cornfield and see it.

Haven Kimmel

#7. Dracula shows his fangs, and the Okie flees through a cornfield. Cornstalks smack her face. "Help!" she screams to a sky full of crows. "He's not actually from Europe!

Karen Russell

#8. I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.

Paul Fleischman

#9. A great yellow circle above the cornfield had slipped out from behind some clouds. The moon. It was the first moon Flora had ever seen. Her heart filled with the beauty of it, and she made a promise to herself. I will be prepared. And I won't live forever inside this pen.

Chris Kurtz

#10. It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's eyes, even from a distance.

Alice Hoffman

#11. I went on a Saturday afternoon, once more cutting through Dorrance Marstellar's cornfield

Stephen King

#12. O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.

Jean Toomer

#13. Jack: For Christ's sake, it wasn't like I was on vacation. I've been in Iowa, in cornfield hell!
Keely: Did you just say you got cornholed in Iowa?

Lorelei James

#14. Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

Billy Collins

#15. My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#16. Like a wombat in a cornfield." Jo
"Beg pardon?" Cadegan
"You're not the only one who can throw together random words that make no sense and use them in a sentence like they do." Jo

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

Steven Spielberg

#18. Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.

Edna Ferber

#19. Accepting your flaws is a hard thing to do when you're constantly reminded of them.

Auliq Ice

#20. Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.

Sandor Marai

#21. The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

Tom Glavine

#22. Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

J.J. Abrams

#23. I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.

Michael Ian Black

#24. Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.

Charlie Haas

#25. Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

Bryan Adams

#26. Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. One of these, the doing of the work, is proper to men trained in the individual subject, while the other the theory is common to all scholars.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#27. Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.

William Kristol

#28. Be bad. Be wicked. And you should worry. But don't.

Helen Oyeyemi

#29. Knowledge cannot be taken away from anyone except by obsolescence.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#30. It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Gustave Flaubert