Best Alistair Cooke Quotes
- To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on,… Acceptance
- It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving… American
- In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world… Any
- Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations,… Air
- People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is… Agreeable
- Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. Factories
- Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. Fellow
- These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the… Assistants
- As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later American
- Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three… Babylon
- The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own… Been
- Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the… Any
- New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. Biggest
- Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. Accepted
- America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality… America
- When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why -… Asking
- 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 their… America
- 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
- No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship. Contributing
- 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… Assert
- Canned music is like audible wallpaper. Audible
- People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. America
- It's an acting job - acting natural. Acting
- Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for… All
- Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. Any