Irwin Corey Quotes

#1. Jazz is not background music.

Horace Silver

#2. Running is WD-40 for the mind.

Corey Irwin

#3. Without this great land of ours, we would all drown.

Irwin Corey

#4. I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

Dick Cavett

#5. Beauty is in the behind of the beholder!

Irwin Corey

#6. I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.

Irwin Corey

#7. When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

Irwin Corey

#8. With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible.

Irwin Corey

#9. Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries.

Irwin Corey

#10. Joy blossoms in our hearts not as we try harder and harder to grow, but as we see more clearly the depth of our sin and understand more fully our helplessness.

Barbara R. Duguid

#11. The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

Alan Hollinghurst

#12. Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.

Corey Irwin

#13. Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.

Irwin Corey

#14. Remember, "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.

Irwin Corey

#15. ...that's all I ever wanted back, to have a home, a family. All I wanted was clarity in my life. Something that made sense, something that I could hold onto, someone I could love without a doubt and be my home. Alex, you're my clarity. You. Are. My. Home.

M. Clarke

#16. Do you understand the sadness of geography?

Michael Ondaatje

#17. It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you.

Irwin Corey

#18. Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Laura Riding

#19. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Irwin Corey

#20. Three English bulldogs count for one kid.

Troy Polamalu

#21. I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

Charlemagne Palestine

#22. What he values is a task that, demanding of him all he has and is, absorbs and so releases him entirely.

Nan Shepherd

#23. If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

Irwin Corey

#24. Jory gripped her chin, turning her to face him. His jaw hardened, and he tried to remain gentle. "Time to make a choice, sweetheart. Please. Choose me.

Rebecca Zanetti