To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two… — Jascha Heifetz Copy Share Image
Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a… — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit… — Dave Stevens Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies. — Gina Gershon Copy Share Image
When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'. — Amaury Nolasco Copy Share Image
I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.” — Marchel Reich-Ranicki Copy Share Image
Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image