Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When people criticize our work, whether that work is a spreadsheet, a coffee, or our children, we take it very personally as… — David Kim Copy Share Image
“We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“It's impossible for a mind born of biology to stay strong always. You'd have to be a machine to not feel bad… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The first half of 'Book Reports' deals with the history of popular music and rock criticism. When I hooked all those historical… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often,… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
“You’re too sensitive’ victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults… — Renee Fredrickson Copy Share Image
Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
A lot has already been written about this. Criticism has been ferocious. Still, most in the mainstream media have stopped short of… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they… — Rosanna Arquette Copy Share Image
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in classes where students criticize each other’s manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
When you're writing a blog post, you can take solace in knowing that you will immediately know how people will respond to… — Leandra Medine Copy Share Image
I don't try to think about how I can satisfy those who would criticize me, or plot and plan to work in… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Don't let people's compliments go to your head, and don't let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
“The public talk -- and injuriously! -- Well! are you ignorant of the little importance of such talk? -- The public speak!… — Joseph Boruwlaski Copy Share Image
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A biography should be faithful to the truth. I do not believe that a biography of a man should be all praises,… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I'll just say that there are times when TV shows, like 'The Honeymooners' or 'I Love Lucy' or something, where they're totally… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I was a newcomer and I was asked to put on weight for 'Veer' since I was playing a princess from the… — Zareen Khan Copy Share Image
The thing with 'No Man's Land' is not to see it, but how to make people to go to see it. The… — Danis Tanovic Copy Share Image
I have increasingly steeled myself to criticism, but it still can sting, especially when you feel that it is unfair - or… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only the very rarest… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
![“A biography should be faithful to the truth. I do not believe that a biography of a man should be all praises, it should be both [praise and criticism] because it is not bad to show the human side of a person. You make him human by painting the defects.” quote by Teodoro A. Agoncillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/faf/teodoro-a-agoncillo-18516_criticism_a-biography-should-be-faithful-to-the-tr_2410032.jpg)
