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My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s. -- Chris Abani
There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing. -- Fiona Shaw
Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict. -- Eamon de Valera
The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last. -- Josephus Daniels
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' -- Kevin Barry
'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
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
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
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
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
If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork -- Thom Yorke
How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it. -- John B. Keane
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
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. -- W. C. Fields
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? -- W. Clement Stone
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
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
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
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
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
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
I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings. -- Vinnie Jones
I think I owe my life to cork soles. -- Anthony Trollope
A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart. -- Bob Dylan
Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle. -- James Joyce
His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide. -- James Joyce
Don't worry about calling for me. Just pop a cork loudly enough and I'll come running. -- Anistatia R. Miller
I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear. -- Maureen Johnson
He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms. -- Pete Rose
Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. -- Gene Perret
Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'? -- Dick Gregory
My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out. -- Hugh Grant
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
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
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
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
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

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