"To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end."

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Source : Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.62, Arcade Publishing

Alistair Cooke

#Golf Quotes #Swings Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.”
“I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.”
“Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.”
“Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.”
“If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.”
“We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.”

Source : Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt, www.facebook.com. April 16, 2013.
“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”

Source : Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.30, Bread and Circuses Publishing
“I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.”

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