Famous quotes containing the words william, cooke and/or died:
“Well, I know you haven’t had much experience writing and none at all in pictures. But I’ve heard about you. It all sounded like you’re just the man I wanted for a story about the Navy. I don’t want a story just about ships and planes. I want a story about the officers.... I want this story from a pen dipped in salt water not dry martinis. Do you know what I mean?”
—Frank Fenton, William Wister Haines, co-scenarist, and John Ford. John Dodge (Ward Bond)
“Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
“You know what she died of, Mother Pegg? Of darkness.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)