John Corabi Quotes

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

Comeback is a good word, man.

My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.'

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

Only in politics do resurrections occur.

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat - and I give them a more incandescent future.

It is good to make my comeback in Jamaica after not playing for so long.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

Spring is very energising to me.