And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am always pleasantly surprised by the criticism because I learn from it and sometimes shocked by it. — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Those who criticise others are not perfect either. Often criticisms are only bombasts. Most of the criticisms are organised, and hidden agendas… — Chandrababu VS Copy Share Image
The innermost essence of my being...is fearless; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it… — Janet Scudder Copy Share Image
What aren't the pressures of being an actress? Don't get me wrong, I love my job. It has been my one and… — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Even if you do nothing, say nothing and be nothing, there will still be many who will criticise you. It is much… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
“Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
No matter how you decide to act or how good you try to live it, others are always going to talk shit,… — Cory Tate Copy Share Image
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“At first Christ was a man – nothing more. Mary was his mother, Joseph his father. The genealogy of his father, Joseph,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a pretty word. Democracy is a captivating magic. The oppressed classes always wanted and the oppressing ones always promised a… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
Both praise and criticism are reinforcing, but praise reinforces good traits, criticism bad traits. To criticize with the thought that pointing out… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
“But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
The majority of Russians considered Pussy Riot's stunt to be an act of religious hatred, rather than criticism against the close ties… — Moddi Copy Share Image
They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too. — William Penn Copy Share Image
The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms -… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.” — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I received a lot of criticism early in my career, but people didn't realize that I'd only been training for three years… — Phil Heath Copy Share Image
I think people saw me as someone who was real, and not somebody subject to the criticism and ridicule given to my… — Bruno Sammartino Copy Share Image
In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
When you are a player, you don't really understand the criticism when you feel like you played pretty well. — Joe Flacco Copy Share Image
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
