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Was there a better sound in the world than a champagne cork popping? Hell, no. — Sarra Manning

With alcoholic ritual, the whole point is generosity. If you open a bottle of wine, for heaven's sake have the grace to throw away the damn cork. — Christopher Hitchens

There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences. — Colum McCann

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. — W.C. Fields

I think I owe my life to cork soles. — Anthony Trollope

He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles. — Winston Graham

How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it. — John B. Keane

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

As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon, — Roald Dahl

The first volume of Irish folktales was Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, published in 1825 by Thomas Croker from Cork. — Ryan Hackney

The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped. — C.S. Forester

I won't try to argue you out of this pit you've climbed into, Cork. — William Kent Krueger

wouldn't talk to you." Cork — William Kent Krueger

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

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

Don't worry about calling for me. Just pop a cork loudly enough and I'll come running. — Anistatia R. Miller

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

Brave enough? Or stupid enough?" "Sometimes," she said, pulling the cork out, "there is truly no difference. — G.A. Aiken

A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart. — Bob Dylan

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

His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide. — James Joyce

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'? — Dick Gregory

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? — W. Clement Stone

What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? — W.C. Fields

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. — Gene Perret

Ye know, Cork Courrant-Porky Implant. Tis a jest" Ian — Kerrelyn Sparks

He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed ... it's like he has cork in his arms. — Pete Rose

She pulled the cork and sniffed it. "What's in it?" "Sunlight," I said. "And a smile, and a question. — Patrick Rothfuss

I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear. — Maureen Johnson

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw. — Mark Twain

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

And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly — Munro Leaf

He is raw sex in a bottle, uncorked. And somebody needs to cork it! — Karen Marie Moning

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

Oh, you eat cats in Cork now, do you? — Anonymous

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last. — Josephus Daniels

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

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

Mix ingredients. Close bottle with a cork and fix cloth rags around the mouth. Soak rag in kerosene immediately before use. Light and enjoy! — Matt Kindt

NEIL GAIMAN near Kinsale, County Cork 15 January 2001 — Neil Gaiman

A cork isn't useful unless you have a place to put it. — Ian Tregillis

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

There had been something about the pop of the champagne cork, the naughtiness of it. — Liane Moriarty

'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

Champagne's completely useless, you know," he said. "The only good part is the moment you pop the cork. — Haruki Murakami

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' — Kevin Barry

Word is you heard the Windigo too."
I did. The difference is I'm ready for the son of a bitch."
Cork O'Connor — William Kent Krueger

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle. — James Joyce

If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork — Thom Yorke

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

a real sport." The waiter popped the cork and — Judy Blume