"The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint."

-- Alistair Cooke

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“Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.”
“Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.”
“I get beat up on every project.”
“I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.”

Source : Buddy Hackett (1968). “The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies”
“The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.”
“We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.”
“Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.”

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