Brooks Atkinson ( 10 of 13 )
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the read more
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
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of read more
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.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank read more
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.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and read more
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.
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. read more
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 evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically read more
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside
The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures read more
The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves read more
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
