Alistair Cooke Quotes
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
Quotes to Explore
-
We continue to be bullish on China.
-
Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
-
Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
-
I love cycling.
-
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
-
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
-
The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
-
As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
-
When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
-
Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
-
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
-
In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
-
I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
-
I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
-
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
-
That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
-
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
-
I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
-
When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
-
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
-
I knew what a circle could do. Both eyes focus on it. It stamps itself out, like a dot. This, in turn, causes one's vision to spread, as in a mandala in Tantric art.
-
Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
-
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
