Critics Quotes

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

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.

Don't pay any attention to the critics; don't even ignore them.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

Youth need less critics and more models.

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.

Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very well for my age.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not that dumb, and we are not that smart.

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.