Critics Quotes · Page 26

“Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

— John Milius

I don't know how to make the critics happy!

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

— Peter Schiff

“Focus on your dreams, not on your critics.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Not even the severest critics of Jeffrey Archer can deny his style.

— Ann Widdecombe

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

— Anonymous

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

— Chuck Jones

One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must…

— Alexander Theroux

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and…

— Henry James

[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

Critics help you progress: you end up working more; you want to show them they are wrong.

— Marouane Fellaini

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.

— Norman Wisdom

A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in…

— Peter Greenaway

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's…

— Aloe Blacc

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the…

— Anonymous

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us.…

— Jonathan Swift

I don't think the role of the critic has changed very much. In the most positive sense, the music critic is one…

— Michael Hersch

Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave…

— Sylvia Plath

You can be our critic. Would you dig that? (Yes, he was the last Man in America who could say “dig” with…

— Jordan Sonnenblick

With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And…

— John Wolcot

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and…

— Chuck Klosterman

Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight…

— Colm Toibin

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up…

— Isaac Asimov

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

“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to…

— Dorothea Brande

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in…

— Tillie Olsen

More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of…

— Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.

— Peter Jackson

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

— Bryan Cranston

I think it'd be pretty juvenile to make a record as a reaction to my critics.

— Andrew Ridgeley

Critics tend to praise as well as crucify you.

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

— Jean Rostand

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.

— Stephen Cohen

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

— John Grisham

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown