Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.
Brooks AtkinsonThe cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.
Brooks AtkinsonThe perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Brooks AtkinsonIt seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
Brooks AtkinsonWe cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
Brooks AtkinsonWalking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers.
Brooks Atkinson