Top 100 Cooke's Quotes
#1. When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.
Julian Casablancas
#2. The first time I heard Sam Cooke was in the 'Malcom X' film. I was with my father, and that's the first time I heard his song. I remember my father telling me the story of Sam Cooke.
Leon Bridges
#3. I live with four of my best friends - with my brother and three of my best friends - and we have a lot of fun; there's a really tight bunch of us in London.
Christian Cooke
#4. But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.
Alistair Cooke
#5. It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.
Alistair Cooke
#6. Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
Jack Kent Cooke
#7. My girlfriend's dad runs the Prostate Centre on Wimpole St. in London, and he's chairman of Prostate U.K., which I think is the second-largest prostate cancer charity in Britain.
Christian Cooke
#8. Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good,
Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods.
Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook,
Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke ...
Tupac Shakur
#9. The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.
Steven Van Zandt
#10. Education was my father's way out of poverty. He taught me that learning was incredibly valuable.
Phil Cooke
#11. Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature.
Graham Cooke
#12. Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.
Edmund Vance Cooke
#13. When you're running around and playing, it's amazing ground for imagination, and that's really the biggest muscle you need for anything in the arts. I think it's probably the biggest training I've had.
Josh Cooke
#15. Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.
Alistair Cooke
#16. Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.
Alistair Cooke
#17. I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.
Edmund Vance Cooke
#18. The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
Alistair Cooke
#19. The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation
Graham Cooke
#20. The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books ... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries.
Terence Cooke
#21. I'm coming from a Ginuwine and Usher background: slow and smooth songs. And that's why I really connected to Sam Cooke, because he was just very smooth. It's not like the James Brown types, which is all great stuff, but he was totally set apart from those guys.
Leon Bridges
#22. 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.
Alistair Cooke
#23. Going to parties by myself? Yeah, I don't know if it's super cool or super uncool. I haven't decided yet.
Christian Cooke
#24. To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.
Alistair Cooke
#25. I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.
Sam Cooke
#26. If I was mad, it was in this, that I had believed such a possession would protect me from the assassin.
Janis Cooke Newman
#27. Generally, if I can't be true to the creator's intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.
Darwyn Cooke
#28. I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.
Sam Cooke
#29. Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.
Sam Cooke
#30. Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
Alistair Cooke
#32. It almost feels like a movie or a- I know it's been said many times - that cable television is the new novel kind of thing - but it does feel like that.
Christian Cooke
#33. It sounds stupid, but there's nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that's older than 100 years old. I think London - not to sound pretentious - like New York, it's a big melting pot for all things and it's just got this energy that you can't find anywhere else.
Christian Cooke
#34. Social media isn't about "marketing" your church or message; it's about "connecting" with people who want to make your story part of their story.
Phil Cooke
#35. It's been a long time coming. But I know a change is gonna come
Sam Cooke
#36. There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will
Sam Cooke
#37. When God's putting His finger on the part of your life that's not working, He's pointing to your next miracle.
Graham Cooke
#38. Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world - somewhere between India and the United States. Who's sending missionaries to that country? Who's planting churches there?
Phil Cooke
#39. The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
Alistair Cooke
#40. Good attitudes are contagious; they inspire and encourage others. Bad attitudes are also contagious; they create a negative and hostile work environment and make others feel uncomfortable - like they have to walk on eggshells all the time.
Tony Cooke
#41. Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.
Graham Cooke
#42. My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.
Merry Clayton
#43. Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.
Christian Cooke
#44. I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals.
Josh Cooke
#45. Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.
Merry Clayton
#46. AirWalker. With a name like that, it had to be Mitch Walker's plane. Was it possible she'd found herself a bush pilot with a poetic soul?
Cheryl Cooke Harrington
#47. God cannot change. He cannot be anything other than who He is. Out of His love and His promises, you were selected as His treasure. God's faithfulness has been the bedrock of His dealings with humanity throughout time.
Graham Cooke
#48. Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
L.A. Reid
#49. If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
Olivia Cooke
#50. I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.
Charley Pride
#51. You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.
Edmund Vance Cooke
#52. Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.
Edmund Vance Cooke
#53. I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.
Kaz Cooke
#54. Actuaries are people who wanted to be accountants but didn't have the personality.
Kaz Cooke
#55. Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein.
Sam Cooke
#56. Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.
Phil Cooke
#57. Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.
Sam Cooke
#58. Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).
Faulkner, reimagined by me.
Christina Cooke
#59. Until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#60. Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life.
George Cooke
#61. I did 'Echo Beach,' a surfing drama that meant I was often topless. Next came 'Demons,' and the opening sequence had me in my boxer shorts; and then there was a scene in 'Trinity' with me walking around in boxer shorts. It was only one scene in each series.
Christian Cooke
#62. If your mind is attuned to beauty, you find beauty in everything.
Jean Cooke
#63. Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.
Kaz Cooke
#64. Learn to walk in God's perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.
Graham Cooke
#65. White." He spoke with conviction and I knew he'd seen. "A thousand shades of white, from mist to snow to starlight.
Deborah Cooke
#67. I think God loves to speak to us prophetically, because there are a number of things which happen when you receive a prophecy.
Graham Cooke
#68. My wife, aside from being amazing in general, was really the catalyst in this, and I really owe a lot of the move to New York to her. She reminded me I've always wanted to do move to New York for theater and said, 'Let's stop talking about it and do it.'
Josh Cooke
#69. Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.
Sam Cooke
#70. If I could just touch the hem of His garment
I know I'll be made whole
Sam Cooke
#71. The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#72. It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die. 'Cause I don't know what's up there, beyond the sky.
Sam Cooke
#73. Branding is about building trust and loyalty and extending your customer relationships far beyond a single transaction.
Phil Cooke
#74. *You stand in a puddle when I would give you an ocean...*
Graham Cooke
#75. Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Alistair Cooke
#76. Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
Phil Cooke
#77. Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.
Alistair Cooke
#78. Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody ... ..
Sam Cooke
#79. My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
Olivia Cooke
#81. My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
Olivia Cooke
#82. It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
Alistair Cooke
#83. Companies don't innovate, people do.
Phil Cooke
#84. I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.
Alistair Cooke
#85. I'm an old soul. I like the Nat King Cole; Sam Cooke is my favorite singer of all time. But I'm into neo-soul; I'm into R&B. Some of the modern stuff appeals to me, but most of it comes from an older time.
Trai Byers
#86. There are countless books written on self-defense. Not all are non- sensical, but many are. Nathaniel Cooke has clearly thought a great deal about the subject and distilled its essence in a way that is wholly admirable.
Robert Twigger
#87. When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
Olivia Cooke
#88. People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
Ahmet Ertegun
#89. Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
Edmund Vance Cooke
#90. Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.
Alistair Cooke
#91. There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#93. [M]an is not an island, he is more like a spaghetti junction.
Elizabeth Cooke
#94. Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.
Sam Cooke
#95. A good story conveys a message that strengthens our values.
Ronald R. Cooke
#97. Ultimately, if the character is interesting and you said that before: It doesn't matter if it's likable. That's really what it is. If they interest you. If the context in which the characters are set interests you then I think then you're pulled in by it.
Christian Cooke
#98. It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I'm not making a lot of money now either!
Sam Cooke
#99. How wise are they that are but fools in love!
Josh Cooke
#100. I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
Olivia Cooke
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