Quotes About Criticism

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Some observers, particularly Southerners, were critical of this show of force. "I have seen today such a sight as I could never have believed possible at the capital of my country," one Southern reporter wrote, "an inauguration of a President surrounded by armed soldiery, with loaded pieces and fixed bayonets." Another observer reported that the procession "seemed more like escorting a prisoner to his doom than a President to his inauguration.

Bonifazia was an excellent servant, but much inclined to criticism and long explanations of why the instructions she had just been given were wrong or impossible to carry out.

Hollywood is the only place where you can die from encouragement." Dorothy Parker

Jay Cee's ugly as sin.

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of non-feeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.

New Yorker rejection of poems may smack me in the stomach any morning.

A literary critic should have no emotions except those immediately provoked by a work of art.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism.

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds,... for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

but we might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

Robert, plain-spoken man that he was, made no attempt to gloss over the fact that her appearance was not up to her usual standards. "You look as if you've been attacked by dogs

I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.

Philosophy without criticism is like hunting deer without a shotgun, so, if you want people to like you, avoid robust philosophical debate.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.

Some people should be paid not to write another novel.

This means that being in opposition to "the world" is, to them, itself proof of the validity of their claims. Moreover, criticism and even ridicule from "the world" becomes further evidence confirming their position.

No estábamos enamorados, hacíamos el amor con un virtuosismo desapegado y crítico, pero después caíamos en silencios terribles y la espuma de los vasos de cerveza se iba poniendo como estopa, se entibiaba y contraía mientras nos mirábamos y sentíamos que eso era el tiempo.

and because I was still influenced at the time by Idealist and Nietzschcan views, which I combined with a Tantric perspective. I was even to criticise Guenon's book on Vedanta in writing (in the magazine Realistic Idealism [Idealismo realistico]). Guenon addressed my criticism, but, evidently, the two of us were speaking a different language. Only gradually did I come to appreciate the value of Guenon's work, which allowed me to more ad¬ equately put my own ideas into focus.