Review Quotes · Page 2

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

— Jim Harrison

To read is human, to review is divine.

— Anonymous

“review, even if it's only a line”

— Milly Taiden

If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.

— John Prine

The best kind of performance review is no performance review

— Aubrey Daniels

All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

— Ellen G. White

“you can't hide from a hurricane under a beach umbrella”

— Philip Rahv

I review albums - really positive reviews - I know I'll never hear again, 'cause I'm just not going to have the…

— Robert Christgau

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

— Groucho Marx

If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.

— Lewis Capaldi

“Your illustrations are really good." "You've mastered another world than I.”

— Robert Eisenman eminent biblical scholar and of James the Brother of Jesus The Key to Unlocki

Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review.

— Lionel Shriver

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

— Melanie Lynskey

My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review…

— Chris Hayes

Once you've made the decision to move on, don't look back. You will never find your future in the review.

— Anonymous

I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the…

— Norbert Leo Butz

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued…

— Rod Parsley

I'm in no way saying that women can't take a tough code review. I'm saying that no one should have to take…

— Ellen Ullman

“Abt Draws from a trove of personal experience to create a vivid account of the people and place. Along the way, Abt…

— Anonymous

From now on, any flick I'm ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: 'You wanna see it early to review it?…

— Kevin Smith

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review.…

— Richard Linklater

In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are sensitive;…

— Phil Daniels

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review…

— Brian Cox

I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a…

— Walter Kirn

Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have…

— Seth Godin

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one…

— Siri Hustvedt

I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's…

— Harmony Korine

Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and…

— Lindsay Duncan

We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's…

— Philip Hammond

So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with…

— William T. Vollmann

I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but…

— Ben Brantley

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

— Danielle Steel

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

— Randall Jarrell

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

— Michael Ignatieff

“I don’t think we [ Black Sabbath ] ever got a good review for anything we did. Which is why I never…

— Ozzy Osbourne

A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.

— Betty Hill

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.

— Hank Stuever

But I don't write a full capsule review of anything I haven't heard five times. It's usually closer to ten.

— Robert Christgau

Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.

— Amanda Peet

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.

— John Yoo