To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting… — Kenneth Grahame 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
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to… — E. D. Hirsch, Jr Copy Share Image
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as great art or poor art. Art is subjective expression. As such, it can be judged only as… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Some critics have suggested that Ronald Reagan succeeded in a series of careers, ultimately as a two-term president of the United States,… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The thing about a music career is that it ain't over until the fat lady sings. Look at all the times people… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them… — Keanu Reeves 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
The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo 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
Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward ... an eventual merging of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state… — Robert Kuttner 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'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is… — Reginald Farrer Copy Share Image
