Redenbacher Orville Quotes & Sayings

Dr. S. talked to me about magical thinking. She was right. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others. She did not say that writing to Boris was a bad idea, but then she never judged anything. That was her magic. [p. 85] — Siri Hustvedt

May hope rise within you.
May peace wash over you. — Charlene Costanzo

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it. — Ellen Glasgow

The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle. — Orville Redenbacher

We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets. — Orville Redenbacher

Burden of unconditional loving tugging at her, their needs and problems, and her inability to keep them safe and give them what they wanted. — Jo Walton

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone. — Orville Redenbacher

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage. — Orville Redenbacher

What do I know about college football? I look like Orville Redenbacher. I have no business talking about college football. — Gordon Gee

Home is where the heart is, no matter how the heart lives. — Sally Fingerett

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents. — Orville Redenbacher

Know what? (Wulf) If halflings live past twenty-seven. But then anything is possible. I say in a few months we should pop us some Orville Redenbacher's, then sit back and enjoy the show. (Spawn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn. — Orville Redenbacher

The real lesson Orville (Redenbacher) taught me was the power of a good brand to trump all rhyme or reason in the marketplace. — David F. D'Alessandro

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them. — Orville Redenbacher

It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn. — Orville Redenbacher

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. — Charles Baudelaire

I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance diva; another thought I should do Rock n' Roll; and one thought I shouldn't even be singing at all! — Alison Moyet

I was a fool for love, I was a fool. — Tegan Quin

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.) — Jane Jacobs

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business. — Orville Redenbacher

His dad had always told him that the red-faced were blusterers, not to be taken seriously. 'But if you see a bloke who's pale and shaking, son,' Bert's father had instructed, 'then run like blazes, because he might flamin' kill you. — Kerry Greenwood

When something doesn't go exactly to plan, money is tight or a business is struggling - see it as a challenge rather than a failure. Look outside the box and try and find a solution - you'll be surprised how many great opportunities and possibilities arise when things look bad. You've just got to open your mind and not be afraid of sticking your neck out! — Richard Branson

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant. — Orville Redenbacher

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense. — Mason Cooley

What's interesting is that I get messages from people who think I'm gone. I have messages like "Tony, we're so sorry. We loved you!" — Tony Danza

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms. — Orville Redenbacher

I think I was in love with Brandt. Like love-love, the gooey, kissy, get married, make babies and live happily ever after kind of love. - Sarah — Linda Kage

I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country. — Ann Veneman

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets. — Orville Redenbacher