Burton Rascoe Quotes

American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian, don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.

Burton Rascoe

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• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Find
  • Nothing
  • Critics

• My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Job
  • Same
  • Critics

• If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Success
  • You
  • Critics

• For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Critics
  • Some
  • Popularity

• Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Book
  • Forever

• I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • People
  • Artist
  • Boy

• Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Great
  • Music
  • Why

• To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Opinion
  • Songs
  • Records

• Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Job
  • Night
  • City

• When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Job
  • Inspired
  • Jobs

• Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Lord

• I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Jobs
  • Suspicious
  • NAFTA

• I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Job
  • Game
  • Winning

• There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Men
  • Different
  • Kind

• Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Purpose

• We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Job
  • Jobs
  • Anthem

• Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Good
  • Job
  • Hope

• For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Powerful

• Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Beautiful
  • Place
  • Safe

• Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Grass
  • Blades

• Just remember...you are the one with everything to lose.

  

  Windham Rotunda
  • Remember
  • Everything
  • Lose

• American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian, don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.

  

  Burton Rascoe
  • Jobs
  • Critics
  • Conception