Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. — George Edward Moore Copy Share Image
I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come… — Jo Stafford Copy Share Image
One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
When critics say we're no good, it's just the cool thing to do. I'm happy with the songs I write. — Jani Lane Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me,… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
I'm a critic. That means you are a writer. So, yes, you have to make yourself an authority on whatever subject it's… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl… — William Safire Copy Share Image
By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus.… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image