Fred Corcoran quotes

Fred Corcoran quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I have three-putted in 40 countries.”
-- Fred Corcoran

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“Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”
“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”
“Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.”
“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”
“Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.”
“My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.”

Source : A.P. Herbert (2014). “Mild And Bitter”, p.20, House of Stratus
“Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.”
“Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.”
“I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?”
“If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.”

Source : Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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