Quotes About Critique

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money.

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

For years I have read the morning paper and harrumphed. There's a lot to harrumph about now.

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.

Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.