Cooke Quotes

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

To rest in God's power when your own weaknesses seem to be screaming at you? That's grace! To be confident in who God is for you when you feel overwhelmed by odds against you? That's peace! To stand alone against massive intimidation? That's trust! To know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God is bigger, and therefore you cannot lose? That's the faith that moves mountains! ~ Graham Cooke

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

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit. ~ Marjorie Benton Cooke

It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live. ~ Graham Cooke

I believe the way to solve this dilemma is if you marry me, so I'll always be close by."

Love swelled up in her heart. "I think I can manage that."

"Good, 'cause the way I've got it figured, it's the only way I can stay somewhere in the same vicinity as my balls."

~Dryer and Charlotte ~ Lisa Cooke

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there. ~ Alistair Cooke

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

It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us. ~ Alistair Cooke

When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out. ~ Olivia Cooke

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school in Yorkshire. I've probably romanticised it in my head, but I seem to remember that in the space of an hour's drama workshop, I was transformed. I went in really shy, and I came out full of confidence. ~ Christian Cooke

I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding. ~ Leon Bridges

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

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname. ~ Jack Kent Cooke

I know this sounds like quite a pile. I know, too, that some of you will wonder why I don't just buy a Kindle. I see your point, but the trouble is that to do so would be to forgo the pleasure of the moment when, years in the future, sand falls from the pages of an old book, and you suddenly remember the Isle of Wight and A Passage to India, a Greek island and The Map of Love, or whatever. For me, a ghostly trace of Ambre Solaire rising from the pages of a sun-bleached paperback is a way back to the past: to favourite stories as much as to favourite beaches. ~ Rachel Cooke

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite. ~ Marjorie Benton Cooke

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

A controlling relationship can start with over-the-top romantic gestures and gifts, and great protestations of you 'being the only one' and their love being a special kind of 'you and me against the world', often disconcertingly early in a relationship. There may be a charm campaign aimed at you and even friends and family, your other potential allies and 'protectors'. Suddenly or gradually there are rules, or flashes of mystifying rage or sulking designed to modify your behaviour to what they want you to do. Then the 'nice' person reappears, and all is well, he's romantic and doting again, before the next flashpoints of anger or rage or sullen tension. This is not a 'return to the good times'. It's the classic cycle of abuse, recognised ~ Kaz Cooke

Damn it," he gorund out again. "I don't know which end to cover."

~Dyer ~ Lisa Cooke

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

Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain. ~ Terence Cooke

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap. ~ Alistair Cooke

Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us. ~ Graham Cooke

One day I'm just going to say, "Good evening, I'm Alistair Cooke. Screw the plot! Watch the program. ~ Rebecca Eaton

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

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength. ~ Graham Cooke

Actuaries are people who wanted to be accountants but didn't have the personality. ~ Kaz Cooke

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

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

I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he is trying to say a little more. And I think this gives. If a singer tries to find out what's happening in life, it gives him a better insight on telling the story of the song he is trying to sing. ~ Sam Cooke

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave. ~ Sam Cooke

all living things, you can't tell them what they should be. You can only help them find what suits them best. ~ Chele Cooke

Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy. ~ Phil Cooke

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about. ~ Jack Kent Cooke

It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag. ~ Alistair Cooke

I have a treasured set of matched grain crosscut horns made for me by master American carver Jim Cooke, cut yin-yang from the same block of briar he waited five years to find. ~ Rick Newcombe

Purpose transcends personality. It is important for supportive ministers to serve based on their awareness of God's purpose. His purpose is foundational and will remain steady when personality conflicts and other difficulties arise.... Challenges come to all types of relationships. Only the relationships that are built on a strong foundation will survive and thrive. ~ Tony Cooke

Learn to walk in God's perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough. ~ Graham Cooke

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms. ~ Sam Cooke

One more, Mr. Straights. I know I'm getting closer and closer to becoming a man. I'm not nearly as in telligent as I was a little while ago."

~Lottie ~ Lisa Cooke

How fierce love is when it is threatened. ~ C.J. Cooke

God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture. ~ Phil Cooke

I tried to stay away from the Euro beats, and not go totally pop. Instead, I wanted to take the Quincy Jones approach. The record pays homage to the Stevie Wonders, the Michael Jacksons, the Sam Cookes. I wanted to put that classic essence of R&B and soul with the new age of music now. There's a lot of live instruments, and a lot less Auto-Tune. I really wanted to demonstrate my vocal ability, creating the vibe of me singing along with a band. ~ Chris Brown

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ~ Alistair Cooke

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it. ~ Jack Kent Cooke

I never want to be seen in my boxer shorts ever again. ~ Christian Cooke

Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it. ~ Bobby Womack

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

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

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

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. ~ Alistair Cooke

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke. ~ Chris Brown

How much real comfort every one might enjoy if he would be contented with the lot in which heaven has cast him, and how much trouble would be avoided if people would only "let well alone." A moderate independence, quietly and honestly procured, is certainly every way preferable even to immense possessions achieved by the wear and tear of mind and body so necessary to procure them. Yet there are very few individuals, let them be doing ever so well in the world, who are not always straining every nerve to do better; and this is one of the many causes why failures in business so frequently occur among us. ~ Grace MacGowan Cooke

Sometimes the imagination is the true predator. ~ Carolyn Jess-Cooke

According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cooke
that Slavic and much Spanish music use minor keys for happy music, he claimed that their lives
were so hard that they didn't really know what happiness was anyway. ~ David Byrne

Like George Washington, we are quick to dismiss politics. This is naïve. Conflict in politics is not only inevitable; it is axiomatically imperative. Politics is division. Political parties do not exist arbitrarily, but are a rational, practical response to dispute. As long as we keep our republic - and in fact even if we do not - people will form cliques in order to forward their agendas. The only way to remove the need for parties, and the disruption they cause, is to remove the capacity for disagreement completely. One cannot help but suspect that for some who claim to find antagonism so tiring, this is the latent desire. ~ Charles C.W. Cooke

Nobody needs to be taken to Hell to experience it. We just grow despair inside the soul until it becomes a world in and around a human. ~ Carolyn Jess-Cooke

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

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State. ~ Alistair Cooke

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

Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. Topless Pizza Lunch. ~ Alistair Cooke

If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is. ~ Olivia Cooke

It is so important that you don't get distracted by what you are not. You need to start confessing your persona and living in it, and don't be bewildered by your circumstances. Just stay on course with what God is promising you. ~ Graham Cooke

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

This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility. ~ Jack Kent Cooke

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth. ~ Jack Kent Cooke

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it. ~ Graham Cooke

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody ... .. ~ Sam Cooke

A good story conveys a message that strengthens our values. ~ Ronald R. Cooke

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

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

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers. ~ Bobby Vinton

In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton. ~ Ben E. King

This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people. ~ Christian Cooke

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since. ~ Sam Cooke

It is easier for the leaders to reject the prophecy and the prophet, particularly if there are some unresolved character issues in the life of the prophet. It provides a legitimate reason to reject the word in the eyes of the people, though not necessarily in the eyes of the Lord. Prophecy has a way of testing our true motives. ~ Graham Cooke

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

one act of passion can change the world ~ Deborah Cooke

Brutally put, it makes little philosophical sense for the elected representatives of a government that is subordinate to the people to be able to disarm those people. As an enlightened state may by no means act as the arbiter of its critics' words, it may not remove from the people the basic rights that are recognized in the very document to which it owes its existence. "Shall not be infringed" and "shall make no law" are clear enough even for the postmodern age. To ask, "Why do you need an AR-15?" is to invert the relationship. A better question: "Why don't you want me to have one? ~ Charles C.W. Cooke

The Internet has given us the illusion of intimacy. We read someone's books, articles, sermons, or watch their videos online, and we feel we know them, so why not share what we think is wrong? But that illusion of intimacy is just that – an illusion. It distracts us from the important principle of reaching out to them personally first, and making the sometimes difficult effort of keeping it private and saving the relationship. ~ Phil Cooke

Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life. ~ Graham Cooke

Your identity is being formed whether you understand it or not, whether you are cooperating or not. Something is being formed all the time, either through your response or your non-response. All your circumstances are to establish something. If you don't respond to them properly, then you establish something that you don't really want to be known for. ~ Graham Cooke

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why. ~ Alistair Cooke

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

Destiny demands you do better than your supposed best. ~ Jack Kent Cooke

Judge the spirit of the prophecy before you judge the truth of the word. ~ Graham Cooke

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

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

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang. ~ Sam Cooke

... if there is a Hell, it is our own fault. ~ Ronald R. Cooke

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings. ~ Alistair Cooke

'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I had such a laugh, every single day. I look like such a feral child in it. ~ Olivia Cooke

I'll tell them that I saw the guy who shot her, then."
The man arched a brow. "The one who turned into a dragon before your very eyes? Don't you think a story like that might affect your credibility as a witness? ~ Deborah Cooke

Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects - illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations. ~ Carolyn Cooke

When New York City created a special Rape Analysis Squad
commanded by police- women, the female police officers found
that only 2 percent of all rape complaints were false - about
the same false-report rate that is usual for other kinds of
felonies.
(a a talk given by Judge Lawrence H. Cooke before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York) ~ Susan Brownmiller

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

Did you tackle that trouble that came your way
With a resolute heart and cheerful?
Or hide your face from the light of day
With a craven soul and fearful?
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?

(Excerpt from "How Did You Die?") ~ Edmund Vance Cooke

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

All in? Hell, he's give her his left nut to get all into her. Or at least he would if she did'nt already have it.

~Dyer ~ Lisa Cooke

Be ruthless in one important area: Yourself. Be ruthless about your commitment to Christ. Be ruthless about your intellectual growth. Be ruthless about finishing well. One of the biggest areas we should be ruthless about is our time. How much time do you spend complaining about your problems to people who can't help you solve them? How much time do you talk when you should be doing? When it comes to others, be gracious. But when it comes to you and your time, be ruthless. ~ Phil Cooke