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Alistair Cooke Quotes
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It’s an acting job - acting natural (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself. (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint. (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules. (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. Topless Pizza Lunch (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
These humiliations are the essence of the game (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Canned music is like audible wallpaper (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation’s television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don’t believe it of any other sport but their own (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it (Alistair Cooke Quotes)
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