Top 100 Cory Quotes
#2. Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
Cory Doctorow
#3. The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail.
Cory Doctorow
#4. For the love of God, unless you're prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.
Cheryl Cory
#5. About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.
Lois Tilton
#6. I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.
Cory Arcangel
#7. I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.
Cory Booker
#8. My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.
Cory Booker
#9. If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.
Cory Doctorow
#11. These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.
Cory Booker
#12. I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.
Cory Monteith
#13. One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth he puts his words into, how he expresses himself, and there's a certain flavor you get with a dialect.
Cory Michael Smith
#14. I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.
Cory Monteith
#15. I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.
Cory Monteith
#16. You know what? Don't even worry about it," I said. "Cory Wheeler already asked me. I can tell him I changed my mind."
"Who the hell is Corky Wheeler?
Jenny Han
#17. It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.
Cory Doctorow
#18. If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead.
Cory J. Herndon
#19. The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
Cory Doctorow
#20. I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
Cory Booker
#21. I love helping people; just being of service makes me happy!
Cory Hardrict
#22. When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.
Cory Michael Smith
#23. I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.
Leon Spinks
#24. Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.
Cory Doctorow
#25. The proprietary advantage once enjoyed by companies who assembled teams under their own roofs and used them only on their own products has been surrendered in the rush to attain some semblance of "lean, efficient" flexibility.
Cory Doctorow
#26. Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.
Cory Booker
#27. As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.
Cory Basil
#28. So the moral of the story
is that God hates vegetarians.
Cory O'Brien
#29. I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.
Cory Monteith
#30. When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality.
Cory Booker
#31. You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
Cory Booker
#32. Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.
Cory Booker
#33. The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.
Cory Booker
#34. We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states.
Cory Booker
#35. Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.
Cory Booker
#37. If you focus on what you want and you persevere, chances are you succeed. You know, that's what I found. It might not be in acting - it might be in business, financing, it might be in the arts, it might be in anything. But it's all about focusing and being inspired.
Cory Monteith
#38. I like the type of culture that the Internet allows to happen. And, of course, for some bizarre reason, that is cats!
Cory Arcangel
#39. If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
Cory Booker
#41. I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy.
Cory Booker
#42. You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.
Cory Booker
#43. I'd rather be a criminal underground than a secret police.
Cory Doctorow
#44. I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.
Cory Doctorow
#45. It was the fact that there was all this terrible stuff and no one seemed to be able to do anything about it.
Cory Doctorow
#46. It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
Cory Doctorow
#47. Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.
Cory Lidle
#48. Your problem is, you're trying to understand it. You need to just do it.
Cory Doctorow
#49. When in problem, or in doubt, run in cirles, scream and shout
Cory Doctorow
#50. Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.
Cory Booker
#51. Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
Cory Booker
#52. Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly on
Cory's guitar. "Dance, ballerina, dance," he softly chanted, and his
singing voice wasn't bad at all. Maybe we could work as musicians
a
trio -if Carrie ever recovered enough to want a voice again.
V.C. Andrews
#53. The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.
Cory Doctorow
#54. It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of the day can think of to say about it is that these iron horses will have a disastrous effect on the hardworking manufacturers of oat-bags for horses.
Cory Doctorow
#55. You're taking the bus around Burbank?" Lester said. "Christ, Perry, this is Los Angeles. Even homeless people drive cars.
Cory Doctorow
#56. I hate that," I said. "It's like there's no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It's the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger?
Cory Doctorow
#57. I debated between law school and divinity.
Cory Booker
#58. I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
Cory Doctorow
#59. (He tells fortunes by throwing palm nuts and reading their patterns but I failed to clarify that because I was looking for an excuse to write "stare at my nuts.")
Cory O'Brien
#60. Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
Cory Doctorow
#61. Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.
Cory Booker
#62. You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.
Cory Booker
#63. Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.
Cory Booker
#64. The show must go on all over the place or something.
Cory Monteith
#65. When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities.
Cory Booker
#66. It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.
Cory Doctorow
#67. Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers.
Cory Doctorow
#68. This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
Cory Doctorow
#69. People actually like supporting the artists whose work they like. It makes them feel happy. You don't have to force them. And if you force them, they don't feel as good.
Cory Doctorow
#70. Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
Cory Booker
#71. Communism is an interesting thing to do, nothing I ever want to be.
Cory Doctorow
#72. I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We're all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys.
Cory Booker
#73. The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.
Cory Booker
#74. The Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
Cory Doctorow
#75. Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.
Cory Booker
#76. Everything good in the world comes from the efforts of people who came before us.
Cory Doctorow
#77. I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.
Cory Booker
#78. It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
Cory Doctorow
#79. Life is too short to try and glue together broken plates that were cheap in the first place.
Cory Basil
#80. The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.
Cory Booker
#81. I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.
Cory Doctorow
#82. I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities..the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
Cory Booker
#83. Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.
Cory Booker
#84. Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country.
Cory Booker
#85. I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.
Cory Monteith
#86. Elections have consequences. So many people want to complain, but they don't want to vote. We can talk about Hillary Clinton. We can celebrate her; we can support her, but if we don't come out and vote for her, for shame.
Cory Booker
#87. I don't know anything about press conferences."
"Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.
Cory Doctorow
#88. I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.
Cory Booker
#89. I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.
Cory Hardrict
#92. My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Cory Booker
#93. Dionysus the god of drinking so hard you wake up with TWO hangovers and then they FIGHT.
Cory O'Brien
#94. Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.
Cory Booker
#95. BUT ENOUGH SPIRITUALITY. BACK TO TITS AND BAD DECISIONS.
Cory O'Brien
#96. This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey's Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on Prozac.
John L. Monk
#97. Kids born into certain ZIP codes will most likely have certain educational outcomes. And we've got to end that. If we end that, we explode economic development.
Cory Booker
#98. I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.
Cory Doctorow
#99. We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.
Cory Booker
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