Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.
Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.
I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.
Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.
I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.
It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.
People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.
You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.
A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).
I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.
I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself.
I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.
Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
Never take your critics lightly. You must always try to win them over by your hard work. Don't brush them off.
Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.
A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.
It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.
The only critics who annoy me are the ones who come to my shows even when they're clearly not fans of my work.
We will always have our critics because we are Manchester United. It has been like that since I have been here.
An artist is usually responsible only for the creation of a particular art. It's up to the critics to label it.
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.
Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.
I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next.
I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.
Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.
I don't care if the critics don't like me. I want to be the people's designer, like Diana was the people's princess.
Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
Ultimately, you've got to answer your critics on the track, and I am very much hoping 8.41m is acceptable for people.
Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.
I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.