Walter Kerr Quotations

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.

Seymour Peck's editorial hand ranged far, wide and deep, touching lightly but expertly He seemed less an editor of any sort than the very best sort of guardian angel.

Wherever it came from, the musical came with its hair mussed and with an innocent, indolent, irreverent look on its bright, bland face.

There is literally nothing Mr. Carmines will not use - gallops, waltzes, polkas, circus blares and musical bumps and grinds - to get his work done.

Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.

A serious and composed young actress who won't let a line pass without making certain she's had it in for a private talk and perhaps tea.

He wove a great web of knowledge, linking everything together, and sat modestly at a switchboard at the center, eager to help.