Critics Quotes · Page 72

Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have…

— Charlie Campbell

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never…

— Ismail Merchant

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

— H. G. Wells

The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

— William Hazlitt

If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!

— Abu Nuwas

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for…

— George Eliot

At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever…

— Annie Lennox

“Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about…

— Kim Hyesoon

The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.

— E. J. Dionne

It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a…

— Raymond Chandler

Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number…

— Millar Burrows

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

— Hortense Calisher

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and…

— Anne Truitt

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

— Michael Stipe

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

— Vin Diesel

I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these…

— Mindy Kaling

I was never a critic.

— Curtis Hanson

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of…

— Edward Albee

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

— Jean Rostand

I think we're going to transition with our comedy programming, trying to broaden the audience and broaden what the network does. Those…

— Robert Greenblatt

People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it…

— Bob Dylan