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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 golf as possible. — Alistair Cooke

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. — Alistair Cooke

It's an acting job - acting natural. — 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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. — Alistair Cooke

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. — Alistair Cooke

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings. — Alistair Cooke

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. — Alistair Cooke

If computers take over, it will serve us right. — Alistair Cooke

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap. — Alistair Cooke

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. — Alistair Cooke

I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better. — Alistair Cooke

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

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

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe. — Mark Hopkins

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

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. — Alistair Cooke

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 there. — Alistair Cooke

I appreciate every team that wants me, and I take on every challenge. — Tyson Chandler

Every sport pretends to be literature. . . — Alistair Cooke

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why. — Alistair Cooke

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

One day I'm just going to say, "Good evening, I'm Alistair Cooke. Screw the plot! Watch the program. — Rebecca Eaton

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. — Alistair Cooke

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. — David Crosby

The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible. — William Howard Taft

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. — Alistair Cooke

These humiliations are the essence of the game. — Alistair Cooke

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

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. — Alistair Cooke

For long-term true success we mush rethink and change our mindset from only valuing "happiness" to include Well-being as the foundation. — Tony Dovale

Kissed me like he was a man starving for oxygen and I was the only air he needed to breathe. — J. Lynn

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. — Alistair Cooke

Blushes and sighs are all very pretty, but soft words butter no parsnips. — Alyssa Everett

For each rule of thumb, there is something that breaks that rule. — Kristine Kathryn Rusch