16 Quotations by Alistair Cooke
- 1. A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
- 2. A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
- 3. All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running som ...
- 4. Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and it ...
- 5. Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
- 6. Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their ow ...
- 7. Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a ...
- 8. It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of ...
- 9. Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter an ...
- 10. Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
- 11. People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and ...
- 12. The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to ...
- 13. Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this sid ...
- 14. When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking ...
- 15. when we say a man or woman is a credit to the race, we should mean no more or less than the human ra ...
- 16. Who is this rare bird, perched at the eerie dead center of the world's hurricane, whom all men delig ...
Alistair Cooke Quotes by Power Quotations
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