To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue! — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be. — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work. — James Caan Copy Share Image
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention… — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves… — Philip Kitcher 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
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
“When you criticize someone with followers, the followers recognize that, if you are correct, they have been sucked in. If they had… — Gary North Copy Share Image
The Internet is the Wild West of the world, where anybody can throw anything down. Everything can be as relevant as the… — James Bay Copy Share Image
I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Book critics certainly are judges who wield a tremendous amount of power in terms of whether or not a book will reach… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that. — William Golding Copy Share Image
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
