Categories Quote by John Legend

“Men like to categorize women.” I curl my lip. “Into convenient little boxes like ‘hot’, or ‘cute’, or ‘beautiful’. It’s easy for them. It’s…

— Sara Wolf

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

— Whoopi Goldberg

Look at what's happening on campuses for free speech. They're literally, literally limiting what people can say, under the guise of preventing people from…

— Rush Limbaugh

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

— Eldar Djangirov

The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American literature couldn't…

— Roxane Gay

American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate…

— Burton Rascoe

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

— George Herbert

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

— Edward Abbey

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

— Christopher Hampton

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

— Francois Truffaut

I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.

— Krzysztof Penderecki