Alistair Cooke Quotes - Page 2

• Para adquirir un dominio elemental del juego del golf, un ser humano debe aprender, mediante una práctica interminable, una serie continua y sutil de movimientos muy poco naturales, en los que intervienen unos sesenta y cuatro músculos, que dan como resultado un swing aparentemente natural, que tarda dos segundos en empezar y terminar.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Swings, Práctica

  Alistair Cooke (1996). "Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements", p. 62, Arcade Publishing.

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• To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cowboy, People

  Alistair Cooke (1979). “The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on Our Life and Times”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Texas, como cualquier otra región, no se limita a tener platos autóctonos. Los proclama. Te felicita, a tu llegada, por haber escapado de los cubos de basura de los otros 49 estados.

  Alistair Cooke

  Comida, Texas, Cocina

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• Si los ordenadores toman el relevo, nos vendrá bien.

  Alistair Cooke

  Ordenador, Por Encima, Si

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• El día del juicio se acerca o
  o no. Si no es así, no hay motivo para el aplazamiento. Si lo es, yo
  elijo que se me encuentre cumpliendo con mi deber. Por lo tanto, deseo que se
  traídas.

  Alistair Cooke

  Deseo, Mayo, Causas

  Alistair Cooke (1951). "One man's America", New York, Knopf.

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• Ha sido una doctrina americana indiscutible que la salsa de arándanos, una sustancia viscosa de color rosa con matices de tomates azucarados, es una necesidad deliciosa de la tabla de Thanksgiving y que el pavo no se puede comer sin ella.

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  Thanksgiving, Pavos, Doctrina

  Alistair Cooke (2015). "Talk About America: 1951-1968", p.15, Open Road Media.

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• But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.

  Alistair Cooke

  Rain, Sunset, Winning

  Citado en Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.

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  Golf, Años, Juegos

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.79, Open Road Media

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• Entre un cuarto y un tercio de la superficie de Los Ángeles está monopolizada por el automóvil y sus necesidades: autopistas, autovías, garajes, gasolineras, aparcamientos. Y todo ello está cubierto de anonimato y aire viciado.

  Alistair Cooke

  Air, Land, Car

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• People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

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  America, People, Listening

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

  Alistair Cooke

  Cocktails, Accepted, Music Is

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• Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

  Alistair Cooke

  Ambition, Golf, Skills

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.61, Arcade Publishing

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• No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

  Alistair Cooke

  Sports, Facts, Myth

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.14, Arcade Publishing

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• Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

  Alistair Cooke

  Men, Fellow Man, Habit

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Los estadounidenses son menos místicos acerca de lo que produjo sus campos de interior o de pradera; son el producto de los arados rotatorios bulldozerm, las segadoras, los sistemas de aspersión y los fajos alarmantemente generosos de dinero plegable.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Rotary, Meadows

  Alistair Cooke (1996). "Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements", p. 114, Arcade Publishing.

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• 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 institutions.

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  Creer, América, Gente

  Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

  Alistair Cooke

  Música, la música es

  Quotedin David PickeringBrewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

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• New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

  Alistair Cooke

  New York, Cities In The World, Village

  Alistair Cooke (1951). "One man's America", New York, Knopf.

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• So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."

  Alistair Cooke

  Morning, Golf, Player

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• There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

  Alistair Cooke

  Book, Golf, Games

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.135, Arcade Publishing

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• I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Arte, Pensamiento, Mente

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• The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

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  Party, Golf, Garden

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• [Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Special, Bud

  "Golf: The Marvelous Mania".

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• Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

  Alistair Cooke

  Sports, Believe, People

  Alistair Cooke (2013). “Golf: The Marvelous Mania”, p.48, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

  Alistair Cooke

  Senior, Country, Golf

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.80, Arcade Publishing

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