Alistair Cooke Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous Alistair Cooke quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American journalist who passed away on 30 March, 2004.
“Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.”
“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.”
“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”
“Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.”
“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.”
“Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.”
“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.”
“As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.”
“Canned music is like audible wallpaper.”
“People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.”
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