Alistair Cooke Quotes

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

Life, Serenity, Cheerful

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
Alistair Cooke

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke

Work, Best, Someone

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
Alistair Cooke

Two, American, Latest

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
Alistair Cooke

Music, Accepted, Cocktail

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Alistair Cooke

Men, Habit, Fellow

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, Feeling, Friend

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Alistair Cooke

Music, Wallpaper, Canned

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

Since, Popular, Hollywood

It's an acting job - acting natural.
Alistair Cooke

Job, Acting, Natural

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
Alistair Cooke

Forward, America, Listening

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

Feeling, Country, America

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

War, Small, Become

These humiliations are the essence of the game.
Alistair Cooke

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: November 20, 1908

Died: March 30, 2004

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