Zitat des Tages über Kork / Cork:
Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
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.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
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.
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.
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.
The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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.
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 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.
