Brooks Atkinson Quotes

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.

Brooks Atkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 28, 1894 - January 14, 1984

Topics

GodPastThank GodYearGoSilent

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

Jessamyn West

LiveWorldSickUnderstandTwoWell

I find that the work I do as an actor that's most challenging commands an athleticism or, certainly, a physicality. And also a rigor, a physical rigor.

Jeffrey Wright

WorkFindActorRigorMostPhysical

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

Johnnie Cochran

CompassionLawyersBe NiceNiceWant

We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.

Rod Parsley

TruthStartTakeMarketplace

Designers become translators for me. That's why I've gone to people like Gareth Pugh and Viktor and Rolf - they are speaking a nuanced language. Fashion says a lot for me.

Roisin Murphy

PeopleMeFashionLanguageBecome

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother.

Mona Simpson

LifeLoveFatherManBrotherMe

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

Lizzie Armitstead

AchievementHappyBe HappyBetter

Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to dress my teenage daughter Gabby. So it was the perfect street wardrobe: jeans, anoraks, jumpsuits, boyfriend jackets, sweaters, skirts and dresses. Then DKNY grew into an entire lifestyle concept, including tailored clothes you wear to work.

Donna Karan

WorkDaughterDressClothesYou

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

David Sedaris

BoyMoreAwayIf I CouldGetCould

What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.

Chris Meledandri

CompetitionWorryMediaYoungTake

I don't take the roles home with me. I don't work that way. I don't understand that; I mean, I really don't when I hear that.

Bonnie Bedelia

WorkHomeMeUnderstandWayMean

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

IdeasDoneKeepSomethingMustThem

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