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. - Alistair Cooke

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

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

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

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

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. - Alistair Cooke

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

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

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

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