A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics. — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really. — Ethan Slater Copy Share Image
If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book.… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason… — John Irving Copy Share Image
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
To be an actor you need various things. You need to have a head for choosing the roles. You have to be,… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
“Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
That's something you can't get off the wires in New York is people providing intelligent coverage of what your theater company in… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer… — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me,… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures…For example, assuming the… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image