I don't know how to make the critics happy!

In football, you can't always play well, and sometimes there will be criticism. Sometimes when I get a lot, it helps me. It makes…

— Edinson Cavani

“That’s critics for you. They’re never happy unless they’re convincing you that what you like just isn’t any good.”

— Anonymous

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.

— Mother Teresa

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

— John Grisham

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to…

— Charlie Sheen

This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when…

— Nicki Minaj

The Yippies, their lifestyle is different from mine. But I consider Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman inspired critics of the kind of society that…

— David Dellinger

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy…

— Ted Cruz

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

— James Cook

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

— John Waters

Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley…

— Mark Steyn

I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to…

— Matt Tyrnauer

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

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you…

— Stephen King