For years Corky was what I call a jokester. He'd tease me with things like, 'You've got breasts like two currants on a breadboard' or 'You've got a sunken chest like a pirate's something or other.' He didn't like my teeth until I got braces at 25. It's like a little pickaxe that goes, chip, chip, chip, until, in the end, you think you are ugly.

Shirley Ballas

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Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

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.

Bill Bailey

Wit Who Which

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

Politics World Word

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Dickens

T Screw Ring

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

Chris Abani

University UN Ted

Corky is the one who never gives up. I never gave up. He faces obstacles, and he couldn't always reach his goals. But he tries to reach his dreams.

Chris Burke

Dreams Who Ways

Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn't know that he's an inspiration.

Chris Burke

Who True Things

Down syndrome kids can learn. Like Corky. That's the way I feel about it... For those kids who have Down syndrome, to give them a chance.

Chris Burke

Chance Who Way

People still recognize me on the street. 'Are you really Corky?'

Chris Burke

You Tree Till

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.

Chris Sacca

Yin Years Year

I love Goody's Spin Pins. They're super cheap and look like corkscrews. You just gather your hair and screw them into a bun.

Christa Miller

Love Good Your

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

Car You Write

In 'Waiting for Guffman,' the character I played, the Corky character, he's very serious about what he does, and it's not meant to be mean that this is a small town and these people aren't the most talented people. They're trying the best they can. So to be mean, that would be kind of horrifying in its superficiality.

Christopher Guest

Yin Would Waiting

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

Very UN Think

My nan and granddad are from Cork.

Declan Rice

Rand Ran Grand

My grandfather John came from Cork. I have six degrees of separation in Ireland.

Duff McKagan

T Six Separation

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

Eamon de Valera

War Anger You

Bob Corker's a very reasonable person.

Evan Bayh

Very Son Reasonable

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

Fiona Shaw

Till Theater T

I'm trying to do more inverts and corked-out rotations that you don't see at the girls' level. I want to be more creative.

Hannah Teter

You Yin Want

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Helen Rowland

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

It was somewhere in Ohio - Cedar Point or something like that - one of those thrill rides. A few cars up, someone's sunglasses had fallen off, and we were on one of those corkscrew parts, and I saw sunglasses and just instinctively grabbed them right out of the air. I was like, 'Oh, my reaction time is really good. This is going well.'

Hilary Knight

I would rise, monk-like, at 6 A.M., speak to no one, make tea, and go immediately to my desk from which I didn't move until frills appeared around the edges of my eyes or I heard the sound of a wine bottle being uncorked. It would give the wrong impression to describe these as Writing Days.

Howard Jacobson

Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use.

James Lind

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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.

Michael Connelly

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

I wanted to do a corkscrew moonsault backwards, so I had the idea of doing it forwards like the shooting star corkscrew, and I was aware no one else did that in wrestling. If I could perfect this technique, it would be unique to me.

Neville

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

Nick Cannon

Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.

Peggy Johnson

I've kind of changed my diet, but in my diet rulebook, on section 5 paragraph A, there's a cheating plan. So, Corky's BBQ is one of my favorite spots to go to.

R-Truth

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.

Red Gerard

Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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!

Sarah Greene

I've never used a foam pit or an air bag before. I learned my tricks over time, and double corks have been a slow transition in my pipe riding.

Scotty Lago

When I met Corky, he was a cook, a chef. He never started dancing seriously until he was 21, which shows you can make it from any age.

Shirley Ballas

For years Corky was what I call a jokester. He'd tease me with things like, 'You've got breasts like two currants on a breadboard' or 'You've got a sunken chest like a pirate's something or other.' He didn't like my teeth until I got braces at 25. It's like a little pickaxe that goes, chip, chip, chip, until, in the end, you think you are ugly.

Shirley Ballas

I have introduced legislation - with other senators from both parties, like Bob Corker and Bob Menendez and Joe Manchin - called the 'Countering the Iranian Threats Act', specifically to clamp down on a lot of Iran's nefarious activity throughout the region.

Tom Cotton

Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

Vin Scully

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