28 ordspråk av Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke föddes den 20 november 1908 och dog den 29 maart 2004 - English writer
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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 |
| A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it |
| A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. |
| 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. |
| As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. |
| 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. |
| Canned music is like audible wallpaper. |
| Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. |
| 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. |
| Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. |
| Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. |
| Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. |
| I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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