Critics Quotes · Page 24

Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer,…

— Seth Godin

I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year - they called me up when somebody canceled two days…

— Bill Murray

Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.

— Douglas Lain

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

— Andre Rieu

Cavil you may, but never criticise.

— Alexander Pope

As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is…

— Cliff Curtis

I'm my biggest critic. I want there to be no flaws when you hear it. When I think that maybe it's ready,…

— Keak da Sneak

I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film…

— Steve Martin

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what…

— Ang Lee

I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have…

— Cornel West

I would have been a lot more nervous if I would had known that Matthew McConaughey was [on 30th Annual Television Critics…

— Terry Crews

There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned…

— Philip Kitcher

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself…

— Gore Vidal

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without…

— Bernice Rubens

Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression…

— Walter J. Phillips

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

— Scott Adams

[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old,…

— John Leo

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope

There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course…

— Eugenie Scott

But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that…

— Anonymous

When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so…

— Bobby Knight

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

— John Landis

The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel…

— John W. Gardner

The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional…

— Karen DeCrow

Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I…

— George Soros