"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."
Alistair Cooke quote Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
Alistair Cooke quote These humiliations are the essence of the game.
Alistair Cooke quote 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 quote 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 quote Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Alistair Cooke quote People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
Alistair Cooke quote 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 quote Biography
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