These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

Quote by Alistair Cooke

Topics: Doomsday Quotes

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...

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...

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...

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

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.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like...

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like...

It's an acting job - acting natural.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

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...

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...

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

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...

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...

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

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...

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...

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like...

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like...

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.