"They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why."

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Source : Alistair Cooke (2015). “Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.50, Open Road Media

Alistair Cooke

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“On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.”
“People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.”
“A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.”
“If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.”
“We formed in 1993 to make it clear that we don't take our marching orders from anyone overseas, we have no connection to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
“Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.”
“I met Kim Kardashian in a nightclub once, and she was really nice. Kanye was with her, but he didn't speak. He just looked at me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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