Alistair Cooke quotes Born: 11/20/1908 Died: 03/30/2004 Country: usa

• Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. (Alistair Cooke) [curiosity/people/generosity/argument]
• 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 inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. (Alistair Cooke) [child/feeling/give/right]
• 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 board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. (Alistair Cooke) [america]
• Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. (Alistair Cooke) [habit/men]
• All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah. (Alistair Cooke) [start/find/more/people]
• Canned music is like audible wallpaper. (Alistair Cooke) [music]
• A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. (Alistair Cooke)
• As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. (Alistair Cooke)
• Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. (Alistair Cooke)
• Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. (Alistair Cooke)
• Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. (Alistair Cooke)
• Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. (Alistair Cooke)
• It's an acting job - acting natural. (Alistair Cooke)
• People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. (Alistair Cooke)
• 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 their oyster. (Alistair Cooke)
• 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 more they look like lab assistants in small colleges. (Alistair Cooke)
• These humiliations are the essence of the game. (Alistair Cooke)

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