Quotes by Cooke, Alistair




Alistair Cooke, KBE, (November 20, 1908 March 30, 2004) was a legendary British-American journalist and broadcaster. Born in England, he became a naturalized American citizen, and lived in New York City with his family for most of his adult life..

"A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."

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

Cooke, Alistair on festivals    Share

"Canned music is like audible wallpaper."

Cooke, Alistair on music    Share

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

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"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."

Cooke, Alistair on compliments    Share

"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."

Cooke, Alistair on curiosity
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