The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto.… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze… — Dudley Randall Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable?… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved… — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is… — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in… — Vinnie Jones Copy Share Image
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What you learn after you are 40 is that it is just about plugging up holes in the boat. You just hope… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict. — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
“I believe hurling is the best of us, one of the greatest and most beautiful expressions of what we can be. For… — Dónal Óg Cusack Copy Share Image
Libya faces along to the Mediterranean and had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So all problems, economic problems… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms. — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on… — Arpad Elo Copy Share Image
He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles. — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
