Quotes by : Brooks Atkinson

Life is seldom as unendurable as to judge by the facts it logically ought to be.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point....

This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness business....

In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every....

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist but the....

We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all that good outweighs evil....

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every....

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point....

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital....

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.