Critics Quotes
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The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury, the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
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If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
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The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.
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For I am nothing if not critical.
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If you beat someone with a good name, of course some people are going to say he's past his prime, he's washed up, or he shouldn't be fighting. You're always going to have critics. It doesn't matter what the outcome is, whether it be good or whether it be bad.
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The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.
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I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.
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Not to pick a fight with any post-structuralist critics or anything like that, but a certain frame of mind can only tolerate that kind of academic stuff for [so long].
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The passive idler of all men in the world is the most difficult to please. Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
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Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.
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With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
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Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.
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The Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
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To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
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It could've been made thirty years ago or forty-five years ago actually, or it could've been made last week. And, I think the level of our craft was such that we're appreciated, at leased by fans if not critics. Critics have never appreciated our band.
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I make my pictures for people, not for critics.
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Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.
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Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.
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A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
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People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
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It's still word of mouth that is going to make or break a show, and while critics can't help a show, they can hurt it.
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I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.
