Critics Quotes - Page 36

• No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.

  Tim Tebow

  Thinking, Matter, Accepting

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• Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Mind, Body, Taught

  "'My Critics Didn't Teach Me Cricket'". Interview with Boria Majumdar, www.openthemagazine.com. March 12, 2012.

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• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friends, Wisdom, Hate

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• If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Interesting, Swim, Saws

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

  Charlize Theron

  Winning, Awards, Office

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Nov 29, 2014

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• The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Editors, Criticism

  "Life as I Find it".

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• Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

  John Updike

  Writing, Sea, Sailing

  Hugging the Shore foreword (1984)

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• Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Editors, Rejection

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

  J. C. Watts

  Numbers, Black, Alarms

  "What Color Is a Conservative?". Book by Chriss Winston and J. C. Watts, abcnews.go.com. October 22, 2002.

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• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

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• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  Florence Welch

  Character, Hair, Choices

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• No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

  H. G. Wells

  Passion, Writing, Editing

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• Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Women, Criticism

  Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

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• I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

  James Whistler

  Two, Three, Four

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Play, Saws

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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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.

  George Will

  Country, Law, Arizona

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

  Bernard Williams

  Friendship, Criticism

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• I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

  Amy Winehouse

  Girl, Thinking, Worst

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• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Dark, Theatre

  1955 In the New York Mirror, 27 May.

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• What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.

  James Wolcott

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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

  Naomi Wolf

  Jobs, Echoes, Scientist

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• Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Time, Art, New York

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• The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Mind, Doe

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• Young people need models, not critics.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Youth Of Today, Nba

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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