Brooks Atkinson Quotes

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

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• I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Feel
  • First Time

• I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Proud

• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Man
  • Doubt

• You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hair
  • Need
  • Healthy

• It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Think
  • Me

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Power
  • Inspiration
  • Beauty

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Character
  • Life Is A

• I don't like to direct myself.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Direct

• The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Public

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Treasure
  • Pirate
  • Island

• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Genre

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• I close my eyes, hoping to slip into the same dream again, but then that never happens, does it?

  

  L.A. Meyer
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• We recognized that for our future, and for the way the customer was now shopping, we had to have one point of view. All roads lead back to the customer.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Future
  • Shopping

• I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Relationship

• 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Faith

• I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Done

• 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
  • Life
  • Growth