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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 1st place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
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against time, anyway, baby, ball, ball up, bounce, bounced, bounces, bouncing, crime, crisis, day off, designed, do good, enjoying, falling off, fall in, fall into place, fall in love, For any, generation, Good Work, hit, numbered, On The Ball, put off, solemnly, The Crisis, work off
«A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it»
«Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| About:
Funny,
Golf
| Keywords:
arrogance, deflated, deflates, deflating, exhibition, overweening, soured, whiff, whiffing, whiffs
«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.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| Keywords:
coincide, coincides, compliment, conclusions, Feel free, Free Inquiry, inquiries, set free
«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.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| About:
Nations
| Keywords:
arrivals, congratulated, congratulates, congratulating, dishes, escaped, indigenous, pail, pails, proclaims, region, slop, Texas, The Arrival
«All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| Keywords:
a couple of, bumble, Bumbles, choosing, crusade, crusades, cured, Election year, fever, intractable, Messiah, poke, presidency, Presidents, The Messiah, the presidency
«Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.»
«It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| Keywords:
board, cranberries, cranberry, cranberry sauce, delectable, goo, pink, sauce, sugared, thanksgiving, tomato, tomatoes, turkey, unchallengeable, uneatable