Brooks Atkinson Quotes

"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Men, Poetry, Education, Knowledge, College, Thinking, Years)

"The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Life, Growth, Illusion)

"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Age, Time, Thought, People, Myth, Old)

"Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy."
- Brooks Atkinson

"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: God, Past)

"Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Day, First, Labor)

"After each war there is a little less democracy to save."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: War, Democracy)

"There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Joy, Play)

"It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Life, Truth)