I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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