Words matter. These are the best Cork Quotes from famous people such as Billy Hughes, Lawrence Welk, Peggy Johnson, Declan Rice, Sarah Greene, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.
My nan and granddad are from Cork.
They just love the Irish accent in the States. But I just talk really fast because I’m from Cork. It’s my speed that really throws them, especially when I get nervous. Doing interviews there is really hard because you can’t hear a word I’m saying!
‘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.
Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
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.
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.
I’m one hundred percent Irish, and I’m very proud that I’m Irish American, though I don’t know exactly where my ancestors came from. I just know County Cork.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
When I was 20 years old, I was living in Ireland, going to school in Cork. There was this girl in my film class that I was kind of flirting with. We had this notebook that we passed back and forth. We would write 10 questions and then pass it back while we were supposedly paying attention.
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.
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.
The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for ‘The Irish Times.’
The city of Cork – the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are – is actually an island, a river island.
My grandparents lived with us. And I remember watching ‘Doctor Who’ with my granddad on his new telly. These were the days before remote controls but my granddad, being quite a resourceful sort of chap, had fashioned his own remote control – which was a length of bamboo pole with a bit of cork that he’d glued on the end.
My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the ’50s.
It’s so hard to look at someone doing a triple cork when you’re 7 years old, and them saying, ‘I want to go do that.’ It’s not really relatable at all. So, if I can somehow make it so kids want to get into snowboarding, that’s special.
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.
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.
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
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.
