Alistair Cooke

Journalist

18 Quotes

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

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.

Prajurit hari kiamat ini tidak lebih seperti prajurit daripada prajurit Perang Dunia Kedua yang tampak seperti penakluk. Semakin ahli mereka, semakin mereka terlihat seperti asisten laboratorium di perguruan tinggi kecil.

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

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

Ini adalah pekerjaan akting - akting yang alami.

Keingintahuan... memberi orang-orang yang memilikinya dengan kemurahan hati dalam argumen dan ketenangan dalam cara hidup mereka sendiri yang muncul dari kesediaan mereka yang ceria untuk membiarkan hidup mengambil bentuk yang diinginkan.

Orang-orang, ketika pertama kali datang ke Amerika, baik sebagai pelancong atau pemukim, menjadi sadar akan perasaan baru dan menyenangkan: bahwa seluruh negeri adalah tiram mereka.

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

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

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.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

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.