Common Quote by Terry Teachout

“One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.”

— Terry Teachout

And Paul Moravec, not being a theater person, would always trust me when I said things that I am like, "you're going to need…

— Terry Teachout

Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's standing in…

— Terry Teachout

We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world…

— Terry Teachout

I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it easy to…

— Terry Teachout

Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay…

— Terry Teachout

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

— Terry Teachout

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

— Terry Teachout

(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of…

— Terry Teachout

If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle. These tend…

— Terry Teachout

The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You wouldn't go…

— Terry Teachout

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

— Terry Teachout