Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Never deny others their right to criticize or to hate you, and yourself your right to ignore them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I actually have a good relationship with critics. You have to identify everything that you like and don't like that you see,… — Steve Pink Copy Share Image
When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic. — Rakim Copy Share Image
It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
The critics mostly review the budgets when they go to see a big-budget movie. They are out to get a big-budget movie.… — Yvette Mimieux Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with… — Jack Hunter Copy Share Image
Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
There is no magic. Harry Potter was probably the last one. There are no Harry Potters in politics. There are people who… — Dora Bakoyannis Copy Share Image
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
Except that it’s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. It’s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic… — Jan Chozen Bays Copy Share Image
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in:… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
When I created Chipotle in 1993, I had a very simple idea: Offer a simple menu of great food prepared fresh each… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
