Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administration would take the gold, world-records for violations of national and international law. They want another four year term to continue to...

It is believed that the critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. It is so in social life, too. Without any egoistic interest nobody criticizes the government. Give the critics the...

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and...

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not...

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly...

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Critical voices have to care about history. We have to care about the way in which things get controlled in the past because that’s when the damage gets done and if we don’t keep that...

Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun.

Easy to be a critic; hard to be a quarterback.

No American soldier should be allowed to se t foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

You can’t be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life’s masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a ‘writer’, and a talentless mediocrity!People...

The popular distinction between ‘constructive’ and ‘destructive’ criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To...

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you’re very pessimistic about that society. And it’s only when you speak...

One of the Christian’s biggest fears is appearing ‘too Christian’. God forbid, because that’s often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being ‘one of them’.

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can’t stop.

If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good

He’s the President—it’s the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it’s warranted.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

I get real upset when I hear criticism about Ron.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don’t like in ourselves.

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision,...

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns”(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song ‘Hero’by Mariah Carey)

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Wenn wir uns der Verfolgung des freien Geistes während der Diktatur besinnen, werden wir die Freiheit jedes Gedankens und jeder Kritik schützen, so sehr sie sich auch gegen uns selbst richten mag.”[Ansprache am 8. Mai...

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by...

I took a lot of criticism for not recruiting Manitoba kids. But those kids, in most cases, were going the route that was the best fit for them, and that was to play junior ball.

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private...

Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation–who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him–but he must go on writing, reflecting...

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it’s considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.

I whirled in the room like a tornado wearing a tracksuit. I wasn’t wearing a tracksuit, but I did have a smirk like a zipper. I loved her like my fly was open to criticism.

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

should be able to tolerate criticism.

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.

I purposely used a pretty cocky, abrasive writing style in Sex and Crime, to stir up some drama. My confrontational style quickly became the talk of the scene. Some of the things I wrote were...

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other’s faults.

There are those who see film and take it seriously as an artistic medium, and others who go to have a good time, to simply be entertained. I have to be careful , because it...

It’s easy to criticizing or assuming people’s talent what really they’re,then you’re still outside, step in, take a chance and explore them.

If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.

As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald’s most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes “are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They cannot distinguish between social values like popularity,...