Quotes About Critique

Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

Like any organizer worth their salt, I'm open to critique, but I won't be bullied or treated badly. I'm an imperfect human, and as such, I have a proclivity to make mistakes. And while I make mistakes, I am not my mistakes.

These $40 burgers with foie gras and truffles and all of that flies in the face of one of the most proletarian foods around. It's overpriced, overdone and just not worth it.

I'm on a mission. If I can make even one person not enjoy something they're currently enjoying, it's all worth it!

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.

Class has always been Tom Wolfe's subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held.

I cannot be Mary Hart - or even worse, Samantha Harris - and stand there with my hip out talking about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes taking Suri to an art museum without making fun of it.

My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the best prices at auction and things like that.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

'24' glamorizes torture. I don't think there's any other way of putting it.

All this size 0! A bit ridiculous. There's something creepy about fashion shows. The models look like they're going to be tortured. They do this strange pony walk; their heels are so high, they can hardly walk. Creepy!

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

Voler salvare l'occupazione a tutti i costi [...] sta a indicare nella maggior parte dei casi un attaccamento viscerale, conscio o inconscio, alla società lavorista. Invece non si tratta di salvare questa società, ma di uscirne.

non basta mettere in discussione il capitalismo, bisogna contestare ogni società della crescita. [...] Contestare la società della crescira implica la messa in discussione del capitalismo, ma l'inverso non è automatico.

I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.

Nothing bothers me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.