Critics Quotes · Page 25

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

— Flannery O'Connor

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

— Bennett Miller

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway.

— Ry Cooder

One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way.

— Robert Greene

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

— Frederic Chopin

“all that really matters to me is that there are critics.”

— Peter Davis

Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.

— Twyla Tharp

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The…

— Bruce Barton

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

— Steven Berkoff

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate…

— John Yoo

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my…

— Ted Cruz

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

— Alanis Morissette

The critics can't say that our regulations are making the environment worse, and 'Oh, it's getting better, well then it must be…

— Andrew R. Wheeler

When people (talk trash) about you, you have to keep it moving, keep the records hot and keep your head up.

— Ashanti

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst…

— Jerry Saltz

I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because…

— Aaron Rodgers

I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the…

— Claire Danes

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level, They talked about…

— Michael Vick

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,…

— Russell Baker

[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like.…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of…

— Philip Kitcher

The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic…

— Clive James

Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop…

— Bakari Kitwana

Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they…

— Paul Stanley

Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing.…

— Peter Sellers

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own…

— Jon Meacham

There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them.…

— M. Russell Ballard

But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd…

— Burt Reynolds

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

— Randy Moss

In professional football, there are always going to be critics.

— Danny Welbeck

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

— Jackie Collins

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

— Mickey Spillane

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

— Milan Kundera

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

— Chris Rock

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

— W. H. Auden

The critics noticed me as a performer only with 'Dor.'

— Ayesha Takia