People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

Quote by Alistair Cooke

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Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him...

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him...

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace...

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace...

It's an acting job - acting natural.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he...

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he...

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by...

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by...

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones...

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones...

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by...

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by...

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity...

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity...

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It...

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It...

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes...

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes...

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World...

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World...

There's no doomsday scheme made specifically for mankind, only higher agenda and priority than human...

There's no doomsday scheme made specifically for mankind, only higher agenda and priority than human...

At the last count -- and we're still counting -- there were 3.2 million claims....

At the last count -- and we're still counting -- there were 3.2 million claims....

Harold Camping of Family Radio is predicting the end of the world for May 21,...

Harold Camping of Family Radio is predicting the end of the world for May 21,...