Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
Alistair Cooke quote Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Alistair Cooke quote I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
Alistair Cooke quote 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 quote It's an acting job - acting natural.
Alistair Cooke quote 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 quote Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Alistair Cooke quote The general atmosphere of Lord's is more like a prayer meeting than a ball game.
Alistair Cooke quote Biography
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