"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory……" — Alistair Cooke
"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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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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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there…
— Warren G. Bennis
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China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic…
— Ray Bradbury
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
— Ed Bradley
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My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in…
— Steve Albini
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If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a…
— Noam Chomsky
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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no…
— Lester Thurow
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I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their…
— Leon Wagner
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