Reviews Quotes

The best kind of performance review is no performance review

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

It's my policy not to review funerals.

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

I did a movie 'I Love You, Man' and it got great reviews; it was very enjoyable.

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

I live in the house bad reviews built.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

I'm not used to getting good reviews.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

There's no such thing as a short review. It will take a long time to get it started. That's the reality. And it will be probably even longer to complete it.

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, "Yeah, I agree."

The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.

I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them again.

The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

We will also require that follow-up reviews take place on a regular basis determined by the sensitive nature of the security involved. The review will be very much exact and recommended by experts.

Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

I'm used to getting reviews. I try not to read much because you'll always focus on the bad ones and not remember the good ones, so it can be a negative thing for a performer.

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.