Famous Quotes / Brooks Atkinson
13 Quotations by Brooks Atkinson
- 1. After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
- 2. Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
- 3. Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe.
- 4. I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
- 5. In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For ev ...
- 6. It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vit ...
- 7. People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of t ...
- 8. The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or ...
- 9. The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point ...
- 10. The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons ...
- 11. The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t ...
- 12. There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
- 13. This nation was built by men who took risks -- pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, busin ...