These humiliations are the essence of the game.
ALISTAIR COOKE It's an acting job - acting natural.
ALISTAIR COOKE These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked ...
ALISTAIR COOKE As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it...
ALISTAIR COOKE Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
ALISTAIR COOKE People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean bac...
ALISTAIR COOKE People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and...
ALISTAIR COOKE Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
ALISTAIR COOKE Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
ALISTAIR COOKE Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mo...
ALISTAIR COOKE We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned si...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few day...
ALISTAIR HORNE I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win me...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 2...
ALISTAIR HORNE It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of ...
ALISTAIR COOKE Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their ow...
ALISTAIR COOKE All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running som...
ALISTAIR COOKE Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratu...
ALISTAIR COOKE Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a...
ALISTAIR COOKE In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any ge...
ALISTAIR COOKE We need a new system, I think, (for) both the public and ministers themselves, who come under pretty...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM does not imply any erosion of the rights of Orangemen in Portadown.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM We see the need to break the cycle in 1998.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM to wreck all the gains of the last few months.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM We cannot ignore the importance of perceptions in Northern Ireland, and there is now a clear emergin...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM It was a very bad result for us, let's make no bones about it. This was a safe seat, we should not h...
ALISTAIR DARLING The claimants' allegation of wrongdoing has been completely dismissed,
ALISTAIR DARLING Unless we look at that, we will have huge problems - absolute gridlock - in 20 or 30 years' time,
ALISTAIR DARLING Local and regional pilots are essential if we are to explore and understand the possibilities of roa...
ALISTAIR DARLING We are looking forward to working with these authorities to develop practical solutions to congestio...
ALISTAIR DARLING Today we are sending out a very clear message to those who drive without insurance - there is now no...
ALISTAIR DARLING already more severe than the rest of the country.
ALISTAIR DARLING We have not put the inflation increase through for the last couple of years. Indeed, since 1999 fuel...
ALISTAIR DARLING We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.
ALISTAIR DARLING Snowfall in January is hardly unexpected,
ALISTAIR DARLING Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
ALISTAIR COOKE I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the iss...
ALISTAIR GRANT A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE Washington
ALISTAIR COOKE Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful w...
ALISTAIR COOKE Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
ALISTAIR COOKE The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to ...
ALISTAIR COOKE Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheer...
ALISTAIR COOKE Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qa'eda and Algeria. It began to...
ALISTAIR HORNE When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Though Washington had closed down for the holidays, the next day, December 26, a key message from Ha...
ALISTAIR HORNE Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM In the fall of 1973, Erica Jong assaulted the last surviving bastions of old-fashioned modesty with ...
ALISTAIR HORNE Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week ...
ALISTAIR HORNE In 1939, Fitzroy Maclean, a gangly Highland aristocrat in his early 30s, was serving as a British di...
ALISTAIR HORNE I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a th...
ALISTAIR HORNE In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crow...
ALISTAIR HORNE There is a widespread view among the liberal intelligentsia to the effect that Henry Kissinger, U.S....
ALISTAIR HORNE Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he's at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Hol...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace i...
ALISTAIR COOKE A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
ALISTAIR COOKE History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo,...
ALISTAIR HORNE I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
ALISTAIR MACLEAN Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Ag...
ALISTAIR HORNE I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focu...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towa...
ALISTAIR HORNE Whenever we race in London, the noise of the fans gives me goosebumps.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE As a fighter, you need to constantly improve. So that's what we've been doing: constantly im...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, ...
ALISTAIR HORNE I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.
ALISTAIR OVEREEM Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious ref...
ALISTAIR HORNE The Canadian is not an American - at least, not entirely, not yet
ALISTAIR HORNE Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
ALISTAIR SINCLAIR There is definitely both a higher willingness to prescribe drugs and acceptance by families to have ...
ALISTAIR SINCLAIR Green coffee stores up to three years. It does not deteriorate and can be kept until the price is ri...
ALISTAIR MACNAB The number of people already employed in the industry is in the thousands, and it's at all levels, i...
ALISTAIR MACNAB Houston is now on the coffee map where it wasn't before.
ALISTAIR MACNAB We're talking about a lot of homes.
ALISTAIR JACKSON Done right, green homes don't have to cost any more to build.
ALISTAIR JACKSON They wondered, if you cannot have everybody holding hands in perfect harmony like a 1970s Coca-Cola ...
ALISTAIR HUDSON It was the first ten impressions that were the most powerful. The same story was pretty much true fo...
ALISTAIR GOODMAN A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential electi...
ALISTAIR HORNE If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that ...
ALISTAIR BEGG If I lose to Frank Mir, I have to find something else to do.
ALISTAIR OVEREEM Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It i...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to ...
ALISTAIR HORNE When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter an...
ALISTAIR COOKE The establishment includes the museums, which were seen as dinosaurs at the center of the big battle...
ALISTAIR HUDSON All impressions are certainly not created equal. We tell our clients to beware of remnant inventory....
ALISTAIR GOODMAN These are hot button issues.
ALISTAIR JACKSON This level of competition is extremely high. Everybody is trained. Everybody has a game plan. Everyb...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM I have a nutritionist and a doctor. Everything is checked. Thoroughly. Everything I take is checked ...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation,...
ALISTAIR BEGG I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
ALISTAIR COOKE Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and it...
ALISTAIR COOKE It's an acting job-acting natural.
ALISTAIR COOKE Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this sid...
ALISTAIR COOKE We are quite different: I'm relaxed, and I get ready for races really late, whereas Jonny is rea...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE For every quote, there is one that challenges it.
R. ALISTAIR At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be pub...
ALISTAIR BEGG The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. Buy one to-...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE If you watch the scroll at the very start of 'A New Hope,' you'll see plenty of referenc...
ALISTAIR PETRIE My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. ...
ALISTAIR MCHARG I'm an all-around fighter. I do everything. I've got wrestling; I've got Brazilian jiu-j...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM Aung San Suu Kyi's late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony's, Oxf...
ALISTAIR HORNE I greatly blame Congress, spurred on by its personal hatred of Nixon, for passing legislation in Jun...
ALISTAIR HORNE Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the pr...
ALISTAIR URQUHART The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
ALISTAIR DARLING The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train tog...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many ...
ALISTAIR DARLING We're proud Yorkshiremen: we grew up fell running, and we still do it whenever we can. I did my ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and th...
ALISTAIR COOKE There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
ALISTAIR BEGG No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.
ALISTAIR MACLEOD English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in...
IAN HARDING I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
IAN HARDING My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
IAN HARDING If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bo...
IAN HARDING I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly w...
IAN HARDING I like people in the cities, in the States and in the Nation to ask themselves now and then: What ca...
WARREN HARDING Standing in this presence, mindful of the solemnity of this occasion, feeling the emotions which no ...
WARREN HARDING The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the p...
PAUL HARDING Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
FLORENCE HARDING I have only one real hobby - my husband.
FLORENCE HARDING America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but res...
WARREN HARDING Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
HARDING LAWRENCE I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. The...
WARREN HARDING If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my vo...
GILBERT HARDING We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious a...
WARREN HARDING When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between ...
LUKE HARDING He once had his toes amputated so he could stand closer to the bar.
MIKE HARDING It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy...
IAN HARDING My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite w...
LUKE HARDING It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that i...
TONYA HARDING The bottom line is how much you have left over from your earnings, and in that regard, these funds h...
BILL HARDING I think investors have become more serious about the impact of taxes because they were saddled with ...
BILL HARDING They are the least-known people from an archaeological standpoint. If it holds up it is concurrent w...
BILL HARDING They're showing signs of life, but I would caution investors not to get too swept away.
BILL HARDING There are also many tax-efficient funds that aren't necessarily advertised as such.
BILL HARDING Hopefully investors realize by now they don't need a focused sector fund in their portfolio.
BILL HARDING There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The ...
LUKE HARDING Facing a team with this type of record, there is a tendency to underestimate that type of opponent. ...
WEYLAN HARDING Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction be...
PAUL HARDING My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am...
LUKE HARDING Look out, Paddy Power, someone's just parked a tank on your lawn.
DAVID HARDING I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tab...
PAUL HARDING Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from spea...
LUKE HARDING I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who ...
LUKE HARDING "In the end, the most important thing is the love you've shared and the relationships which you've c...
DINA HARDING Snowden was horrified to discover that behind bars he would have no access to a computer.
LUKE HARDING He's very, very eclectic. There are traces of all different types of genres. It's a matter of scratc...
ANDREW HARDING He is one of the more venerated artists. He is very well known in the hip-hop steam.
ANDREW HARDING His goal was to say as little as possible without saying nothing, and he was successful at that.
ANDREW HARDING I feel like the defense really stepped up for us. They played a good game like they always do. We ha...
AMANDA HARDING I've been working on it all season and trying my shot better and Ellen Craven, who I played together...
AMANDA HARDING This is my senior year and it's the last time I get to play against Orange. They have always been a ...
AMANDA HARDING She was bleeding quite heavily ... (from) what I've seen and what I've been told, there was more tha...
PETER HARDING This is awful. I was feeling really glamorous in the dress and now I can't even bear to think about ...
SARAH HARDING We've spent two years together and we've really struggled. We honestly haven't earned very much in t...
SARAH HARDING Our customers - and this is an industry-wide problem - cite patch management and configuration manag...
MIKE HARDING Pizza sales, we would have yard sales and everything we could to raise the money to get this togethe...
MIKE HARDING Pretty much everybody has the same product, ... But we feel that he just gave us good service in a t...
MIKE HARDING Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by...
MIKE HARDING If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.
MIKE HARDING America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living...
MIKE HARDING Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sn...
MIKE HARDING You may think you have 100 moles in your yard, but it may be one or two. One or more can make an awf...
JIM HARDING Why are there very few minorities that were dignitaries to lead this march? Those are the serious qu...
BLANE HARDING After that, I'll know everything. To be completely honest with you, I know about Tennessee because t...
LINDSEY HARDING I've seen so many teams give up and fold in that type of situation. I've always been proud of my tea...
WEYLAN HARDING I didn't think we'd shut her out in the first half; she's a great player. We wanted to make her work...
LINDSEY HARDING We expected them to come back.
LINDSEY HARDING I was pushing it as fast as I could. Our wings were getting out and our posts were running the floor...
LINDSEY HARDING They went on a run, but we had to calm down and figure out what would work for us. We started going ...
LINDSEY HARDING I think it's so good for women's basketball. I feel like five or six years ago, the No. 1 team was s...
LINDSEY HARDING The Ruffed Padanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imita...
MIKE HARDING I wouldn't say we were unprepared,
PETER HARDING These are difficult questions, but by starting a dialogue over these questions, we can move from cel...
BLANE HARDING But, Mrs Van Hoosier, if I may make so bold-'

'You may not,' She inserted another cake in...
JOHN HARDING There is something wrong with the equality movement in our state.
BLANE HARDING My whole goal is the Arena Bowl, and to do that, we must make the playoffs. Division crowns are nice...
WEYLAN HARDING Kali comes from the Sanskrit word ‘kal’, meaning time. She is a Hindu goddess, who is greatly mi...
TRACI HARDING Last year we had extra officers on the island, but these things escalate very, very quickly.
PETER HARDING We were gratified by the FAA's decision to extend our good working relationship in 2005. And we are ...
DAVID HARDING Before I mow my front yard, I usually go out and stomp down the tunnels. Of course, by the next morn...
JIM HARDING There was a lot of anti-social behaviour last year,
PETER HARDING If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an ey...
MIKE HARDING Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. W...
LUKE HARDING When I go to the grocery store or when I walk into a convenience (store), when I go get gas, I have ...
MIKE HARDING I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the cr...
PAUL HARDING I woke up knowing we were going to win this for her. I wanted to win this for Coach G. I get tired o...
LINDSEY HARDING He once remarked to a friend that he just wanted to make a difference in the world and he surely did...
DEBBIE HARDING I never spoke of (the other personalities). I thought everybody had them. Even when I was molested a...
DEBBIE HARDING That's when my seven personalities came into my life.
DEBBIE HARDING Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe...
IAN HARDING I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.
TONYA HARDING We were gratified by the FAA's decision to extend our good working relationship in 2005. And we are ...
DAVID HARDING Our response will include church members, their neighbors and adjacent communities, ... It will be u...
DAVID HARDING