Quotes About Critique

dem Stumpfsinn sind immer alle nachgelaufen der Geist ist immer mit Füßen getreten worden

Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.

I had requested all who might find aught meriting censure in my writings, to do me the favor of pointing it out to me, I may state that no objections worthy of remark have been alleged against what I then said on these questions except two, to which I will here briefly reply.

Volgens mij is [sarcasme] het schitterendste wapen van de rede tegen de machten van de duisternis en de lelijkheid. Sarcasme, mijnheer, is de geest van de kritiek, en kritiek betekent de oorsprong van vooruitgang en verlichting.

How does it happen that even today a couple of ordinary French stonemasons, or a carpenter and his apprentice, can put up a dovecote or a barn that has more architectural perfection than the piles of eclectic stupidity that grow up at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars on the campuses of American universities?

Often it is those who are most critical of a "Eurocentric" view of the world who are most Eurocentric when it comes to the evils and failings of the human race.

E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.

They ought to put a statement on the Bible just like they put on cigarettes - like, the contents of this book may freeze-dry your brains.

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

I feel about Flannery O'Connor the same way that terrible people feel about Ayn Rand.

I got the fat poet into a corner and told him he was writing shit and couldn't get away with it Now it is night and time for sleep. Everyone is tired from garbage-glutting lifting their snouts from the trough long enough to ease their gut— I won't urge the point. Gold-plated poems to stuff up their mind's ass or politics watered down so as not to scare the blue bloods Boo! you well-fed bastards

I have not the least sympathy for these useless and destructive pastimes, football and politics.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

There are many ways to portray this change. I think the social critic Laurence Scott does so quite effectively when he describes the modern hyper-connected existence as one in which "a moment can feel strangely flat if it exists solely in itself.

It's safer to comment on our culture than to step into the Rooseveltian ring and attempt to wrestle it into something better.

Well, you just catch me where I go wrong," I shoot back, "but a Harvard education hasn't done much to get your little manuscript out to the world.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

A la sociedad, para ser feliz en su anestesia (las hojas del rábano de la esperanza), le sobran los escritores.

Tenham também um 'confessor', homem ou mulher. As mulheres são muito bem dotadas para isso. Elas possuem uma intuição muitas vezes excelente, uma crítica pertinente e podem perceber o jogo dos homens, e às vezes também as intrigas de sua anima. Elas descobrem aspectos que o homem não vê. É por esse motivo que uma mulher jamais se convence de que seu marido pode ser um super-homem.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

As far as I was concerned, I wrote songs; chords and beats and lyrics, verses. and bridges and hooks. But then, as we got bigger, people began to dissect the songs, like a frog from biology class until there was nothing left but guts- tiny parts, so much less than the sum.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

En cierta obra de un hombre célebre preferiría leer lo que tachó que lo que dejó.