Brooks Atkinson

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

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.

This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness business men who were not afraid of failure scientists who were not afraid of the truth thinkers who were not afraid of progress dreamers who were not afraid of action.

We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

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

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

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

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.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.