"Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets……" — Alistair Cooke
"Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets."
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55 Quotes by Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke has 55 quotes on this site.
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
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The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much…
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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and…
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human…
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I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I…
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still…
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It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for…
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
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The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in…
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
— Cecil Beaton
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A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person…
— Alfred Adler
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of…
— David Cameron
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
— Albert Camus
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil…
— Albert Camus
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day…
— Barack Obama
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has…
— George Washington
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I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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