Alistair Cooke Quotes

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

Alistair Cooke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 20, 1908 - March 30, 2004

Topics

AmericanEnthusiasmEmbraceAlways

I don't look good in beige.

Joan Jett

GoodLook

As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.

John Catsimatidis

SupportLawLaw EnforcementDown

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek.

Max von Sydow

MeFaceDrunkWonderNothingUp

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Max Born

I AmPhilosophyPhysicsNowActually

Wellness is associated with happiness. When you're happy, you're feeling good in your mind and body. That ties into being healthy, eating well, and exercising regularly. It also ties into being excited about things - like getting up in the morning and having a healthy breakfast.

Stella Maxwell

GoodHappinessMorningHappyMind

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

Russell Simmons

OpportunityIgnoranceFightPeople

We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds.

Jose Ramos-Horta

SeaMoneyLawNowInvestmentRight

I would like to never ever think about any political issues.

Deborah Eisenberg

ThinkPoliticalNeverWouldLike

I would like to see both parties aggressively compete for the women's vote and talk about what they will do to unleash the economic power of women, to protect women's health, to provide the right policies that provide for real family stability and real family values.

Christie Hefner

FamilyWomenPowerHealthValues

But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.

Brad Garrett

FunnyConflictBelieveYouTable

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

William Gibson

TreesInternetDownKnowingProject

Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10.

Sheila Heti

ParentsBornTorontoArmenianHe

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