Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
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… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share
