Alistair Cooke Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Famous Quotes by Alistair Cooke
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“A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it”
Profession and professionals Quotes
“Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.”
Generosity Quotes
“As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.”
Vulgarity 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.”
Compliments 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.”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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