If we'd made it in the conventional way, we would have lost a lot of the feeling that came from thin...
ALAN COOKE We wanted to make something that spoke from the heart to the heart.
ALAN COOKE From the beginning there was an element of fate about the project.
ALAN COOKE It's an individual taking a journey, that's the perspective. It happened here, but it could happen a...
ALAN COOKE In the 13 years I served, we never had a problem. But I feel we are going downhill.
ALAN COOKE We know it's going to be a difficult challenge, we're under no illusion.
ALAN COOKE I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
SAM COOKE I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure...
SAM COOKE These humiliations are the essence of the game.
ALISTAIR COOKE It's an acting job - acting natural.
ALISTAIR COOKE These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked ...
ALISTAIR COOKE As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it...
ALISTAIR COOKE Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
ALISTAIR COOKE People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean bac...
ALISTAIR COOKE People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and...
ALISTAIR COOKE Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
ALISTAIR COOKE Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
ALISTAIR COOKE Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mo...
ALISTAIR COOKE If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what g...
OLIVIA COOKE 'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I...
OLIVIA COOKE When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
OLIVIA COOKE My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in...
OLIVIA COOKE My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the act...
OLIVIA COOKE I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater...
OLIVIA COOKE In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
OLIVIA COOKE I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about ...
OLIVIA COOKE It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of ...
ALISTAIR COOKE Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their ow...
ALISTAIR COOKE All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running som...
ALISTAIR COOKE Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratu...
ALISTAIR COOKE Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a...
ALISTAIR COOKE In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any ge...
ALISTAIR COOKE Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
ALISTAIR COOKE A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE Washington
ALISTAIR COOKE Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful w...
ALISTAIR COOKE Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
ALISTAIR COOKE The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to ...
ALISTAIR COOKE Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheer...
ALISTAIR COOKE I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a....
JAY COOKE The mood was elation. It fully lived up to our expectations.
BILL COOKE Now all that's left is a rocky comet corpse.
BILL COOKE It has become quite obvious in recent years that our nomenclature in astronomy is not keeping pace w...
BILL COOKE It's kind of cool knowing there's a six-mile-wide rock in our solar system with my name on it,
BILL COOKE A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace i...
ALISTAIR COOKE A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
ALISTAIR COOKE I am confident about what the men of Georgia Phi will bring to our campus. I could not be more excit...
BUCK COOKE The chapter issued a new charter from SAE. They were also presented with the original charter [used ...
BUCK COOKE The men started the process of becoming a recognized student organization at Tech. Once they receive...
BUCK COOKE [The alumni] presented us with a re-chartering plan [describing] the steps they wanted to take.
BUCK COOKE The local alumni started working with us to make plans for the chapter coming back. We were also in ...
BUCK COOKE Men had to apply, the alumni interviewed applicants and picked the first class. They went to the stu...
BUCK COOKE You are beaten to earth?/ Well, well, what's that?/ Come up with a smiling face,/ It's nothing again...
EDMUND COOKE It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I'm not making a lot ...
SAM COOKE Expect 40 to 60 meteors per hour, some of them bright.
BILL COOKE The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as...
ALISTER COOKE I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
ALISTER COOKE They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.
ALISTER COOKE Normally I?m peeling away to be a third guy, but I saw his head down and saw I had a chance to poke ...
MATT COOKE They symbolize two important, opposing things: Our standing with these (victims) and their families ...
WILLIAM COOKE I feel like all three of our games were close. It's hard to win three close games versus any team.
AMY COOKE It (not having Cappelle) definitely hurt us -- offensively and on the (defensive) boards.
AMY COOKE It was way too cold to be playing soccer. It was a very complete performance defensively and offensi...
IAN COOKE New Orleans is a ghost town. The surface has not even been scratched.
COLLEEN COOKE White." He spoke with conviction and I knew he'd seen. "A thousand shades of white, from mist to sno...
DEBORAH COOKE The best bike I've ever been on is now gone.
MITCHELL COOKE We were on these wicked bikes and everything just goes down the drain.
MITCHELL COOKE Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter an...
ALISTAIR COOKE Over the years I've learned that reconciliation work is not easy. Indeed, the personal pilgrimage in...
DENNIS COOKE I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
ALISTAIR COOKE Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and it...
ALISTAIR COOKE It's an acting job-acting natural.
ALISTAIR COOKE Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this sid...
ALISTAIR COOKE Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke.
SAM COOKE Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost...
PHIL COOKE Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or...
CHRISTIAN COOKE My girlfriend's dad runs the Prostate Centre on Wimpole St. in London, and he's chairman of ...
CHRISTIAN COOKE Even though there were hundreds of volunteers who took time off from their jobs and dropped everythi...
COLLEEN COOKE I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a perform...
CHRISTIAN COOKE It's a real cash-flow crisis for our folks.
CAROL COOKE If you tend to think that sewage going into a brook is a big deal, then this is a big deal. We're no...
IAN COOKE Unless you happen to live in a new subdivision, maybe 10 or 15 years old, much of the older homes se...
IAN COOKE It was Vince who got me interested in this field. He is able to animate [buildings] in a way that is...
EDWARD COOKE He has been at the forefront of most of the architectural movements of the past 30 years, ... influe...
EDWARD COOKE He was poking the screen with it, over and over until he ripped it. But he didn't say anything about...
EDWARD COOKE It's always up in the air. It's up to him to decide. Who knows if this is final? It's open-ended.
EDWARD COOKE I did 'Echo Beach,' a surfing drama that meant I was often topless. Next came 'Demons,&#...
CHRISTIAN COOKE They made good progress but the houses were no where near livable.
COLLEEN COOKE How can the federal government feed its employees with catered meals and not feed the victims of Hur...
COLLEEN COOKE They have all of these trailers down there, ready for people to live in, and yet no one can move in ...
COLLEEN COOKE I believe the way to solve this dilemma is if you marry me, so I’ll always be close by.”
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LISA COOKE America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and th...
ALISTAIR COOKE That's going to be a substantial change from old La Fox. You won't have stars.
JAMES COOKE Nothing will be the same after this. We know that. That's why we're going to give it our all.
JAMES COOKE Bedford was a motivated team. They wanted to even the scored and this was a perfect opportunity. Thi...
IAN COOKE It would've been rough justice at the end if we would've won. A theft really. But you learn a lot fr...
IAN COOKE It's amazing really. It just reminds you that you can't get hung up on wins and losses. It put every...
IAN COOKE She's a cheerleader who came out for soccer, and she's very good.
IAN COOKE Everybody is waiting to see what will happen on the North Shore. The Ipswich regularly goes dry, and...
IAN COOKE I've never been a rocker, and I kind of hate punk rock, ... I grew up on ABBA and the Carpenters. Wh...
IAN COOKE We've cleaned a lot of problems from failed sewers and septic tanks when the weather is dry,
IAN COOKE Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in ...
PHIL COOKE They all got a chance to play, so that was a real positive. The younger girls got a chance to see wh...
MICHELE COOKE They had a great match tonight. They played hard tonight and yes it was an excellent way for the sen...
MICHELE COOKE I had a bit of a tough day [Tuesday] ... with my head hurting a bit from pressure. It's just somethi...
MATT COOKE At this point, I'm just trying to see how it reacts after the ice. I have to make sure it doesn't fl...
MATT COOKE Up until the other day I couldn't handle the pain caused by pressure in the skate.
MATT COOKE Any time I can help chip in on the offensive side of the game, it's huge for us. Not just when I am ...
MATT COOKE Everything else surrounding the game is pretty much put on by the media. We, as well as the Colorado...
MATT COOKE I think it was really good that I was able to come second to a fast sprinter like Regina who had the...
NICOLE COOKE A Change Is Gonna Come
SAM COOKE "Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain! With faith o'ercome the steeps Thy G...
ROSE TERRY COOKE You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against ...
E. V. COOKE Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.
E. V. COOKE Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fac...
E. V. COOKE We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improve...
WILLIAM COOKE TAYLOR The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows, En it's just li...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE He is so little to be so large! Why, a train of cars, or a whale-back barge Couldn't carry the...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE "The hand that rocks the cradle"--but there is no such hand. It is bad to rock the baby, they woul...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not lo...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or the fondle of silk or fur; "Tis the spirit in which...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because i...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE But as for all the rest, There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test. The...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least, But each with...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spi...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE Back of the boy is Wilson, Pledge of his high degree, Back of the boy is Lincoln, Lincol...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE I wish I might a rose-bud grow And thou wouldst cull me from the bower. To place me on that br...
ROSE TERRY COOKE Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs.
ROSE TERRY COOKE I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, And they brou...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, B...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that?Come up with a smiling face,It's nothing against yo...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or the fondle of silk or fur; 'Tis the spirit in which the g...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
JACK KENT COOKE The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
JACK KENT COOKE As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington ...
JACK KENT COOKE You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that?
Come up with a smiling face,
It's nothing ...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE the single most promising composition student that I have worked with in my 37 years of university t...
JACK KENT COOKE Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
JACK KENT COOKE Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS