In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
“No one criticizes someone he believes beneath him. Therefore, change your outlook about your critics. They really believe that you matter.” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is easy now for critics to claim that the work was poor; they haven't produced their own analyses or confronted any… — John Yoo 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
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Critics worry that if we spend time paying attention to that new kind of media or technology instead of talking to each… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now. — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
