Alistair Cooke Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Wish, May, Causes

  Alistair Cooke (1951). “One man's America”, New York, Knopf

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• The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

  Alistair Cooke

  Scotland, People, Mind

  Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Alistair Cooke

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Doctrine

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.

  Alistair Cooke

  Rain, Sunset, Winning

  Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• 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

  Golf, Years, Games

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.79, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Air, Land, Car

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• In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Essence, Games

  "The Marvellous Mania: Alistair Cooke on Golf".

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• 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

  Sports, Facts, Myth

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.14, Arcade Publishing

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• Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and alarmingly generous wads of folding money.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Rotary, Meadows

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.114, Arcade Publishing

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• It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.

  Alistair Cooke

  Believe, America, People

  Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cowboy, People

  Alistair Cooke (1979). “The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on Our Life and Times”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• 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

  Food, Cutting, Lunch

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• So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."

  Alistair Cooke

  Morning, Golf, Player

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• People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

  Alistair Cooke

  America, People, Listening

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

  Alistair Cooke

  Cocktails, Accepted, Music Is

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• New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

  Alistair Cooke

  New York, Cities In The World, Village

  Alistair Cooke (1951). “One man's America”, New York, Knopf

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• The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

  Alistair Cooke

  Party, Golf, Garden

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• I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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• 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

  Book, Golf, Games

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.135, Arcade Publishing

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• Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

  Alistair Cooke

  Ambition, Golf, Skills

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.61, Arcade Publishing

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• Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

  Alistair Cooke

  Music, Music Is

  Quotedin David PickeringBrewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

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• [Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Special, Bud

  "Golf: The Marvelous Mania".

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• Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

  Alistair Cooke

  Men, Fellow Man, Habit

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

  Alistair Cooke

  Sports, Believe, People

  Alistair Cooke (2013). “Golf: The Marvelous Mania”, p.48, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

  Alistair Cooke

  Senior, Country, Golf

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.80, Arcade Publishing

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