Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Many critics have become de facto teachers. That is a lot of responsibility, and I think it should be wielded with care.… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning? — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
My fans are my critics, and I respect their feedback and constructive criticism, but they should not try to own me. Don't… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book,… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I think at one point, a whole new younger generation of critics come in and they're really aware of zeitgeist in their… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I tell my coach all the time "Hey, listen, coach. You know the hardest person on me isn't you, right? It's me."… — Jonathan Horton Copy Share Image
John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless… — Gary Kleck Copy Share Image
We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race,… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than… — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Be patient and loving with yourself. You weren't meant to be your biggest critic, but your biggest fan. — Emily Kinney Copy Share Image
I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I don't mind what the critics say, but I don't generally read them. I'm more concerned with viewing figures. — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image