Quotes About Critique

it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.

Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they are and as they should be.

Undine Spragg—how can you? her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid bell-boy had just brought in.

the most trenchant commentary was

Everything we wrote was submitted to the editors above us, grizzled Korean War pilots with buzz cuts and an encyclopedic knowledge, who would routinely bounce our copy back and demand "fixes" ("More color," "Doesn't track," or simply "Huh?" written in the margin).

Charles used to say, "If God had meant boys to be fucked, he would have put a hole in their ass.

classic (though one that I cannot help thinking a little overrated), and there is no point in describing her poetry here.

last year, says Guido. A bit less sugar and slightly higher total acidity. That's just what he wanted. Still, he tries to find a few nits to pick.

Everything after Star Wars is shit.

These days even mere attempts to improve capitalism are often called 'Socialism,' while in reality they are only reforms.

Let such teach others who themselves excel,And censure freely who have written well.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

the most notable aspect of a positive judgment is not that it is positive but that it is a judgment.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Sociological critics are waste makers.

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

I have seen many times in 100 Crs films there is no content, in short only money is wasted.

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.