Quotes About Critique

Comedians play off of social commentary.

What I don't like too much really is individual comments about the performances of the players after the game.

With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.

If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.

Bush is no conservative.

I didn't want to bash young people. I don't want to bash a kid for dreaming or wanting something or being slightly ambitious - that's not the problem. The actual problem is with the culture surrounding him.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.'

I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.

It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

Comedy is a downward slicing sword sometimes, looking down and laughing at people.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

On the other hand, I compared the disquisitions of the ancient moralists to very towering and magnificent palaces with no better foundation than sand and mud:

Du reste, il est à remarquer que les philosophes disent souvent des choses beaucoup plus justes quand ils argumentent contre d'autres philosophes que quand ils en viennent à exposer leurs propres vues, et chacun voyant généralement assez bien les défauts des autres, ils se détruisent en quelque sorte mutuellement

He also gave me some advice that I follow to this day: "Sing in the mirror. If it looks funny, it's wrong.

It would take an extremely unattractive person to think of that." --Nero Wolfe, on the plot of "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" by Rex Stout, p. 159 of 192

Pero cómo se le va a ocurrir separar el sujeto del verbo con una coma, hombre!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

America, for Greene, was the great spiritual deception – the heresy of well-being.

In October 1864 the Scottish literary magazine Blackwood's published a satirical article on superfluous Victorian hobbies, especially extreme sports and the fashion for futile risk-taking. It was particularly fierce on the desire to rise above one's station.