Quotes About Critique

Indeed, all he remembers are situations that make him displeased with himself.

I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.

I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

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

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

We all love the first Rocky, but I'm not too sure about the last one.

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

I love constructive criticism.

All too often, the Christian industrial project reminds me less of a religion and more of the tobacco, fossil fuel, and weapons industries: willing to harm millions to keep their business going.3

Actually, maybe the problem is not us. Maybe the problem is Christianity. Maybe the product doesn't perform according to its advertising. Maybe there's something wrong with the religion itself, at least in its current form.

I have a confession to make.121 Almost every time I tune in to religious radio or TV, I want to change my religion. I

Younger writers are always looking for blurbs, one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing.

Your writing blows , by the by. You split more infinitives than Gene Roddenberry.

Theory, recall, is the term for bad philosophy in literature departments.

when a culture needs wise spiritual guidance the most, all it gets from religious leaders is anxious condemnation and critique, along with a big dose of nostalgia for the lost golden age of the good old days. We

This is a show of the shit variety

His face appeared to have been massaged with an industrial cheese grater and then retouched with a glue gun.

No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business.

While the style of the critique may vary with the character of the critic, overly polite criticism benefits neither the proponents of new ideas nor the scientific enterprise.

Culture is not your friend. Culture is for other peoples' convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well-treated by culture.

All I can claim in this respect, alas, is that I think I may know just about enough theology to be able to spot when someone like Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens—a couplet I shall henceforth reduce for convenience to the solitary signifier Ditchkins—is talking out of the back of his neck.

Baa Baa Black Sheep' makes Marx's Capital look like Mary Poppins .

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. It indicates that the system has ceased to be as natural as the air we breathe, and can be seen instead as the historically rather recent phenomenon that it is.