Quotes About Critique

prophétique de la grande critique d'auteur et le ronron sacerdotal de la tradition scolaire ? Mais

critiquer. En fait, leurs stratégies discursives

Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

There are not many intellectuals left of Harold Pinter's stature who dare raise their voices - and with such force - against the menace of U.S. and the unrestricted use of its power. Pinter's voice is an unceasing thunder.

Turkey is an important strategic partner facing a volatile period. It needs and deserves our support, but that support needs to include our critique where Turkish policy is not in its own, or our, joint long-term interests: these are regional security and stability as well as strong and accountable institutions in Turkey.

Sometimes nationalism can be jingoistic - even fascistic - but it can also be a constructive impetus that helps to unify a nation. Those whose nationalist critique of parties finds resonance with masses of voters can acquire vast power. We can only hope that they know what to do with it.

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

I think punditry serves no purpose.

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

Christopher Hitchens

When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book its best chance to shine.

I don't understand longer shorts. I don't think they look good on anyone.

There are too many awards shows.

If you think my idea is awful, you should say as much. But there is a difference between attacking an idea and attacking the person behind that idea.

I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn't have to, and my wife and I went out only for the good stuff. And I wrote mostly positive reviews. Not only. But mostly. And, ooooh, it felt an awful lot better.

It's very awkward to watch yourself on TV because I hate the sound of my voice. It's those moments where you're like, 'I do that?'