Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic! — E.D. Baker Copy Share Image
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters. — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no magic. Harry Potter was probably the last one. There are no Harry Potters in politics. There are people who… — Dora Bakoyannis Copy Share Image
My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
Except that it’s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. It’s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic… — Jan Chozen Bays Copy Share Image
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in:… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
When I created Chipotle in 1993, I had a very simple idea: Offer a simple menu of great food prepared fresh each… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
Hindi films are not made for critics, it is made for worldwide Hindi film watching audience. — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. — Paul Emsley Copy Share Image
I don't know where I would be without my critics & haters. I thank yall genuinely from the bottom of my heart… — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes. — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
“If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good'… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel. — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
