Time Quotes by Vincent Canby

There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new…

— Vincent Canby

Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew…

— Vincent Canby

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young…

— Vincent Canby

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

— Vincent Canby

Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.

— Vincent Canby

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los…

— Vincent Canby

“Lives—even the most carefully managed— are voids filled with echoes”

— Vincent Canby

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

— Vincent Canby

We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

— Vincent Canby

Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the…

— Vincent Canby

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset,…

— Vincent Canby