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Alistair Cooke Quotes


Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. Alistair Cooke Curiosity 84
Canned music is like audible wallpaper. Alistair Cooke Music 79
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. Alistair Cooke Accepted 73
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 Argument 73
Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. Alistair Cooke Intelligence 61
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. Alistair Cooke Factory 60
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. Alistair Cooke Fellow 59
Washington Alistair Cooke Holidays 57
These humiliations are the essence of the game. Alistair Cooke Essence 53
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 Best 44
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. Alistair Cooke America 42
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. Alistair Cooke Assistants 39
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. Alistair Cooke Agreeable 38
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. Alistair Cooke New york city 35
Every sport pretends to be literature. . . Alistair Cooke Sports 31

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