Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“We like to think that all people have hidden depths, but the fact is that a lot of people are shallow. The… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“They went on to support their thesis by citing authors with esoteric names, whose works they themselves had not read, a fact… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing… — Henry Sydnor Harrison Copy Share Image
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“What is this self inside us, this silent observer, Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us And urge us to futile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors.… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants - one of the reasons restaurant critics are the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
“Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals" ... Today I am going to speak to you about… — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or… — kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Since my romance novels had all been thrillers as well, it wasn't such a leap for me to move into the straight… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image