Critics Quote by Christopher Morley Download Open image “A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.” — Christopher Morley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Critics Crossings Gongs Railroads Religion Train
“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the… — Anonymous Copy Share
“You can hear the train in those lines; you can feel its rocking motion.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“All the jarring, rattling and clanking, spurting and hissing of the moving train of the train dissolved in the distance into something that was… — R K Narayan Copy Share Image
“The light at the end of the tunnel is another train heading straight for you.” — Joey Green Copy Share Image
“A critic is someone who comes down off the mountain after the battle and shoots the wounded.” — Sander Vanocur Copy Share Image
Despite strong performances, Barry Jenkin's 'The Underground Railroad' is plodding and rudderless. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
“with the expression of one who knows that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion… They begin haphazard. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Yippies, their lifestyle is different from mine. But I consider Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman inspired critics of the kind of society that… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image