Quotes About Critique

So: an epic novel of the Tathagata? Yes, but not a very good one. Kerouac would have done better.

Sorel's novels deserve to be revived, but Polexander can be left in its watery grave.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

Its protagonists were lonely and Williams explores their past and present lives in the kind of tedious detail that could only appeal to retards who appreciate 'literary depth' and 'characterisation'.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

She cringed at the clichè.

I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet

I don't watch daily soap. I've never seen my shows as well except for the scenes in which I really want to improve something or correct something.

Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.

I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.

The year after How to Read a Book was published, a parody of it appeared under the title How to Read Two Books; and Professor I. A. Richards wrote a serious treatise entitled How to Read a Page.

Behind us hung a Correggio St. Sebastian with the habitual Buchmanite expression on his face. Awful tripe, said Uncle Matthew. Fella wouldn't be grinning, he'd be dead with all those arrows in him.

Camille Paglia is: 'the nipple-pierced person's Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of patriarchal daughters.