Top 87 Cork Quotes
#1. Hyacinth took out a bottle of rum, and Phaedra raised her eyebrows, a reflex she'd acquired upon seeing her father and mother under its influence, their eyes and mouths turned wilder, as if a cork at the edges of their personalities had come unscrewed.
Naomi Jackson
#2. There was no point in looking again. He [Cork] knew that. No point except to feed the coldness inside him. In a strange way, that was exactly what he wanted now. He wanted to feed himself to the cold until the cold had consumed him and he didn't care anymore.
William Kent Krueger
#3. Cork, promise me something." "What?" "You won't do anything that'll get you hurt." "I'm not what you'd call a brave man," he assured her. She sighed, her breath making the hair at the back of his neck shiver. "Maybe not, but you're stubborn, and that's just as bad." After
William Kent Krueger
#4. Oh, you eat cats in Cork now, do you?
Anonymous
#5. The basis of your life is absolute freedom, the goal is joy, and the result of that perfect combination is motion forward, or growth. Your goal is to find objects of attention that let your cork raise.
Abraham Hicks
#6. The scent of Havana tobacco draped thick from the magnolia trees in the front yard. Ice cubes mingled and clinked against the sides of crystal tumblers. Patrick said hello to a group of men sitting on the veranda. I heard the pop of a champagne cork and laughter from inside.
Ruta Sepetys
#7. I thought if you loved someone you were supposed to, like, forgive them. I thought that was what love was supposed to be all about."
Cork shook his head: "Easy to say, harder to do.
William Kent Krueger
#8. Don't worry about calling for me. Just pop a cork loudly enough and I'll come running.
Anistatia R. Miller
#9. For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.
Lawrence Welk
#10. She pulled the cork and sniffed it. "What's in it?" "Sunlight," I said. "And a smile, and a question.
Patrick Rothfuss
#11. Mix ingredients. Close bottle with a cork and fix cloth rags around the mouth. Soak rag in kerosene immediately before use. Light and enjoy!
Matt Kindt
#12. I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear.
Maureen Johnson
#13. That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
Mark Twain
#14. His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
James Joyce
#15. My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.
Chris Abani
#16. There had been something about the pop of the champagne cork, the naughtiness of it.
Liane Moriarty
#17. Well the days of community policing were over. The world was a bottleful of sparkling darkness and cops the ones charged with keeping the cork in while the rich shook and shook.
Sunil Yapa
#19. What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
W. Clement Stone
#20. The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#21. We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#22. What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?
W.C. Fields
#23. His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
James Joyce
#24. I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#25. Champagne's completely useless, you know," he said. "The only good part is the moment you pop the cork.
Haruki Murakami
#26. 'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.
William Kent Krueger
#27. I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.
Kevin Chapman
#29. Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.
Janine Benyus
#30. Shatter the icons of slavery and fear.
Replace
the leer
of the minstrel's burnt-cork face
with a proud, serene
and classic bronze of Benin.
Dudley Randall
#31. A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.
Bob Dylan
#32. She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.
Jerry Spinelli
#33. I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.
Luanne Rice
#34. As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon,
Roald Dahl
#35. In every human being, there are two wolves constantly fighting. One is fear, and the other is love. When Cork had asked which of the wolves won the battle, Meloux's answer had been: The one you feed. Always the one you feed.
William Kent Krueger
#36. The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind.
Arpad Elo
#37. I get so scared, I can't stop it. It's like black waves, and I'm a little cork. I bob to the surface and think I'll do okay, and then another wave comes and I'm drowning again." I
Jean Hegland
#38. He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed ... it's like he has cork in his arms.
Pete Rose
#39. What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch
that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.
Nancy E. Turner
#40. And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly
Munro Leaf
#42. How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.
John B. Keane
#43. Word is you heard the Windigo too."
I did. The difference is I'm ready for the son of a bitch."
Cork O'Connor
William Kent Krueger
#44. There was a stage inside it and a crank on the outside that would rotate something, like a tiny tree carved of cork, onto the stage, and then the thousands of little mirrors would multiply that one tree so that the viewer would see an infinite forest instead.
Danielle Dutton
#45. Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
Edward De Bono
#46. The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.
C.S. Forester
#47. Cork your pistol, city boy," she murmured. "Ice cream is for hangovers. If you drug me, I'll also cut your man bits off. I need to be consoled, not tapped on the shoulder as if you were tapping me into a WWE fight.
Kirsty Dallas
#48. The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,
in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,
often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#49. I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
Virginia Woolf
#50. He is raw sex in a bottle, uncorked. And somebody needs to cork it!
Karen Marie Moning
#51. a real sport." The waiter popped the cork and
Judy Blume
#52. With alcoholic ritual, the whole point is generosity. If you open a bottle of wine, for heaven's sake have the grace to throw away the damn cork.
Christopher Hitchens
#53. Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.
James Joyce
#54. There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
Fiona Shaw
#55. For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork
Elaine Stritch
#56. A cork isn't useful unless you have a place to put it.
Ian Tregillis
#57. If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
Thom Yorke
#58. Brave enough? Or stupid enough?" "Sometimes," she said, pulling the cork out, "there is truly no difference.
G.A. Aiken
#59. A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.
Christopher Buckley
#60. There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences.
Colum McCann
#61. One of the great virtues of Confucianism was its suppleness. Western political thought tended to be rather brittle; as soon as the state became corrupt, everything ceased to make sense. Confucianism always retained its equilibrium, like a cork that could float as well in spring water or raw sewage.
Neal Stephenson
#62. Was there a better sound in the world than a champagne cork popping? Hell, no.
Sarra Manning
#63. I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'
Kevin Barry
#64. The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.
Josephus Daniels
#65. I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.
Molly Harper
#66. I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know.
Ciaran Hinds
#67. Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.
Gene Perret
#68. I need some-" Cork thought a moment. "I was going to say advice, but the truth is, I need some guidance, Tom."
"We all do sometimes. It's not always easy to admit.
William Kent Krueger
#69. There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.
Martha Reeves
#70. When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from drowning. She got out her markers and drew a screaming face on the cork.
Miriam Toews
#71. Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
Eamon De Valera
#72. I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher
#73. Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.
Tyler Cowen
#74. Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?
Dick Gregory
#75. If I could sprinkle some hopes over all of you, they would include these: I hope you each find a meatball in the spaghetti of your life; I hope your talcum powder never empties, that your spirit is like a cork and that you all live a thousand, thousand lives. Huzzah!
Sharon Creech
#77. Make the best of where you are and do your best to line up your Energy from where you are, because any bit of struggle or any bit of regret only holds your cork under the water and doesn't allow you to connect with the Energy that would allow anything to improve.
Esther Hicks
#78. A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.
Karl G. Maeser
#79. NEIL GAIMAN near Kinsale, County Cork 15 January 2001
Neil Gaiman
#80. I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'
Gerald Asher
#81. Write your dreams in journal,note book, card or on a cork. When you pen down your dreams, an a inner strength and divine power is activated for your to work towards the fulfillment of your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#82. I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two. Bohane is a little kingdom. When I began writing it, I realised that it was in the future and that it was a place that didn't care about anything that happened outside it.
Kevin Barry
#83. The first volume of Irish folktales was Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, published in 1825 by Thomas Croker from Cork.
Ryan Hackney
#84. Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
W.C. Fields
#85. Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
Billy Hughes
#86. Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.
Arsene Wenger
#87. He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.
Winston Graham
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