Quotes About Critic

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

you make it look like any critic of your method is arguing against saving the children.

The names of Diderot and Baudelaire were coupled. Neither academic nor spouting the jargon of the usual critic, the Salons of Baudelaire are the production of a humanist.

what was the difference between a movie critic and the average movie-goer? Answer: the critic didn't have to pay.

Privately now, I would like to comment to you on the Noble Bitch in Trace 32. Why this eltchl, this conservative from the halls of the ikons and holy rollers, the pluckers of rondeaux and smellers of lilies, why this spalpeen should set himself up as a special critic of literary know-how is more than I can dispense with with a quodlibet. I need a stronger antiseptic.

More important, with my permission, my highlights can be shared with other readers, and I can read the highlights of a particular friend, scholar, or critic.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

this midlevel cultural-capital audience is not as far from the average white pop critic as we might have expected. We usually make middling incomes or worse, and while most have university degrees, our expertise is usually more self-taught than PhD-certified, a pattern believed would produce an anxious, fact-hoarding intellectual style in contrast with the relaxed mastery of a fully legitimated cultural elite.

Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.

Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

the movie, starring John Travolta playing an Army CID guy, was terrific, despite a bad review that I recalled reading in Long Island's Newsday, written by John Anderson, a so-called movie critic, whose opinion I trusted to be the exact opposite of mine.

My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a result, we use the word 'Orwellian' in two senses: The first describes a nightmare state, a dystopia of untrammelled power; the second describes the human qualities that are always ranged in resistance to such regimes, and that may be more potent and durable than we sometimes dare to think.