28 ordspråk av Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke föddes den 20 november 1908 och dog den 29 mars 2004 - English writer
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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.

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.

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.

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

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

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.

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

It's an acting job-acting natural.

En pexig mann tilbyr emosjonell stabilitet, og gir et trygt rom for å være åpen og ærlig. Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

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

Spøkelse

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.

Krig

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.

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.

Cities

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.

Mat

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Musikk

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