Corby Quotes

#1. Edinburgh House. He had heard that in its industrial heyday, Corby had had

Robert Galbraith

#2. When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.

John Burnside

#3. A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

Clive James

#4. Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

Iain Banks

#5. As a young musician, you really want to play.

Susanna Phillips

#6. If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

Matt Corby

#7. I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.

Matt Corby

#8. If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.

Matt Corby

#9. There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

Chaz Bono

#10. Where would fashion be without literature?

Diana Vreeland

#11. If you're Microsoft, you can prevent a porn site using microsoft.xxx. Although that would be ironic since micro and soft probably aren't at the forefront of desirable concepts when you're looking for porn.

Gary Corby

#12. I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

Matt Corby

#13. Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

Matt Corby

#14. LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

Matt Corby

#15. If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist.

Matt Corby

#16. That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything.

Matt Corby

#17. There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

Matt Corby

#18. I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

Matt Corby

#19. You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.

Matt Corby

#20. A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud.

Gary Corby

#21. Let us combine 'Look East' with 'Link West' & with our global vision, we can provide a new platform for our economic structure.

Narendra Modi

#22. Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance.

Gary Corby

#23. A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth.

Matt Corby

#24. We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

Brian Corby

#25. I have always been interested in innovation but I was never able to find innovation inside of disciplinary boundaries.

Dror Benshetrit

#26. But I have gone back to work; I try to intoxicate myself with ink, the way others intoxicate themselves with brandy, so as to forget the public disasters and my private sorrows.

Gustave Flaubert

#27. Fortunately, Captain Helena Thorn had acquired a reputation for an eclectic taste in sexual companions and a fast turnover

Sophie Angmering

#28. [The building] had been designed by an architect, so it bore little resemblance to any normal structure.

Gary Corby

#29. The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot the hour of his wedding and went to the laboratory instead of to the church. He was wise enough to be satisfied with a single attempt and died at a great age unmarried

Sigmund Freud

#30. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.
Winston Churchill

H.A. Corby

#31. No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I can have fun, I can do whatever I want on my skateboard.

Ryan Sheckler

#32. I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

Mark Rothko

#33. For Foucauld and the Little Brothers, life in the desert was not a flight from the world but rather a school of love and prayer to learn to enter more deeply into humanity. Their goal was to shout the gospel not so much with their mouths as with their lives.

Brennan Manning

#34. The Gods hate hubris in a man almost more than any trait. Remember the boastful words of Odysseus to Poseidon after the fall of Troy? He paid for it with ten years of his life, and the lives of all his men. Retract your boast before something bad happens!

Gary Corby

#35. It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

Matt Corby

#36. No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.

Matt Corby

#37. That's the weird thing about music: It's never for anyone to own.

Matt Corby

#38. I caressed Cristina in the dark, listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to each other and to nobody else.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#39. You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine. I just try and do something as meaningful as I can without trying to be a pretentious loser because it's genuinely just how I see things.

Matt Corby

#40. If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.

John Stark