I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics. — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see… — Michael Bay Copy Share Image
Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Here's the thing with the business, is that when people like your work, and you make them money, you're set. When the… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
I always tell people that they are really the critics. If people come three times a week to your restaurant they are… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe.… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
I try not to read reviews. It's hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I try… — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
