What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object… — Allen Tate 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
It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
At the same time, we can't blame comedians for taking time to learn. Any critic of comedy who believes that he has… — Guy Branum Copy Share Image
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
There's lots of room to be your own worse critic. It's just you, so I think that's inherit, that voice that's always… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of… — Elizabeth Berkley Copy Share Image
I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nobody who knows me has ever thought I was a racist, bigot, all of this stuff. All of a sudden I'm on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The most useless job in the world is that of the critic. That is a prejudiced statement. I admit it. I'm prejudiced.… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel.… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
I am not a character who gets carried away with good or bad performances and I won't get carried away by bigger… — Simon Mignolet Copy Share Image
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses,… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
“Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it… — Janet Scudder Copy Share Image
There are many critics who invite me on their show, and I have told them that when my film releases, you will… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
