"Canned music is like audible wallpaper." — Alistair Cooke
"Canned music is like audible wallpaper."
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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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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
— M H Abrams
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The soul...is audible, not visible.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they…
— Plutarch
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After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the…
— Franz Cumont
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no…
— Aldo Leopold
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Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul…
— Jessica Powers
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Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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I hear God as an audible voice.
— David Oyelowo
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Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present…
— Damon Galgut
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We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity,…
— Joan Halifax
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But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to…
— Teju Cole
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