Quotes About Critique

Worshipping Elvis seems to be an excuse for Americans to be fat and stupid.'Probably probably, they love vulgarity. Look at McDonald's

Fatal Vision was a very successful book that a lot of people like, but the problem with it is that you could edit out 75% of the book without losing a single fact or insight.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

Jim Bakker spells his name with 2 k's because 3 would be too obvious.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

Editorial cartooning] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought—or at least we shouldn't try to be. Ours is more the role of the lowly gadfly: circle and stab, circle and stab. Roughly put, our credo should be, if it's big, hit it.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.

Politics is a thing that is kind of the same over and over and over again. But we have to find new ways of poking fun at it and letting the air out of people and satirizing things that are worthy of satire.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them new by dissecting and repurposing public speech, prying its falsehoods from its half-truths. It is fighting for its right to critique our would-be democracy.

Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.

I watch 'The Bachelor'. It's one of those things where I always think if it didn't exist and it was on 'SNL,' we would think it would be a ridiculous, funny idea. But it actually exists... It's a glorious train wreck that I love to watch.

I wrestle in a big way with August Wilson's work in that I at times admire it and at times feel infuriated by it, which is weirdly more influential than loving someone entirely.

Let's Wrestle would rather poke fun than point fingers, even if there's a problem that needs fixing.

Every wrestler I've ever had critique me, they were always into my stuff or what I'm doing out there. For a non-wrestler, someone who doesn't even know how to lock up, and if we did lock up, they wouldn't know what to do, for them to critique any of us, it really does pop me.

Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There's no story there. You've got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables, and that's it. They don't know how to work. CZW is trash.

It is difficult not to write satire.

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.