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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. - 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.

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

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.

American Journalist

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

American Journalist Work

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it - Alistair Cooke Quotes

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. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

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

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

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.

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. - Alistair Cooke 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.

President Running

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. - Alistair Cooke 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.

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 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.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

American Journalist Hollywood

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes -

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.

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

Birthday Festivals

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's 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

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's 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.

Land

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

American Journalist

It's an acting job-acting natural. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

It's an acting job-acting natural.

Acting And Actors

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, 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.

America American Journalist

These humiliations are the essence of the game. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

American Journalist

Las Vegas is Everyman's 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 emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution.

Las Vegas is Everyman's 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 emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution. "Topless Pizza Lunch."

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

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

America American Journalist

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

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

American Journalist Habit

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

American Journalist Enthusiasm

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

American Journalist Curiosity

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke Quotes

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

American Journalist Music

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. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. - Alistair Cooke 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. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.

Food And Eating

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