I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

— Michael Connelly

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

— Vasilios Kotronias

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

— Angus Wilson

All of those Shield guys, who came in protected, have done nothing but deliver, in my opinion, and I am a harsh critic of…

— Dolph Ziggler

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

— Allison Janney

I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

— Russell Peters

Maintaining the status quo is the same as regressing; while you are holding your own, others are passing you by. Be harsh on yourself.…

— Kim Woo-jung

An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A…

— Peter Greenaway

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez,…

— Aaron Sanchez

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

— Mason Cooley

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania…

— Judith Crist

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he…

— Edward Albee

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett