Alistair Cooke Quotes - Page 3

• Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

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  War, Promise, Holy

  1979 Of elections. The Americans.

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• Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

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  Christmas, Christian, Country

  Alistair Cooke (2007). “Letter from America, 1946-2004”, p.131, Knopf

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• For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.

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  Fall, Golf, Men

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.146, Arcade Publishing

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• 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 that of the other starlets.

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  Trying, Identity, Different

  Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• Estos guerreros del Juicio Final no se parecen más a los soldados que los soldados de la Segunda Guerra Mundial a los conquistadores. Cuanto más expertos son, más se parecen a los ayudantes de laboratorio de las pequeñas universidades.

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  War, College, Soldier

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• The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.

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  Golf, Games, Saint

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

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• I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

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  Writing, Talking, Years

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• More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

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  War, Drama, Memorable

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

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  Golf, Two, Insane

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• Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews.

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  Moving, Golf, Land

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

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• It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.

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  Golf, Blue, Feet

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.82, Arcade Publishing

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• [En 1889] la última gran extensión de tierra india fue declarada abierta a la colonización, en Oklahoma. Los reclamantes y los especuladores montaron sus caballos y se alinearon como trotones a la espera del pistoletazo de salida. Los más curiosos se lanzaron y desde entonces se les conoció como Sooners, y a partir de entonces Oklahoma pasó a llamarse el Estado de los Sooners.

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  Horse, Gun, Land

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• When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time."

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  Beach, Son, Golf

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