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Quotes About Review

Review, friends—troops long past review," the Duke intoned. "All to fate a weight of pains and dollars. Their spirits wear our silver collars. Review, friends—troops long past review: Each a dot of time without pretense or guile. With them passes the lure of fortune. Review, friends—troops long past review. When our time ends on its rictus smile, we'll pass the lure of fortune.
~ Frank Herbert
It is the depravity of institutions and movements that given in the beginning to express life, they often end in throttling that very life. Therefore, they need constant review, perpetual criticism and continuous bringing back to the original purposes and spirit.
~ Frank Viola
Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.
~ Jonathan Galassi
#TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old born into a male body is a designated genius. It can't be that the language used to review male and female films is different.
~ Debra Granik
The first thing I do on a Sunday is five hours in front of the TV watching football, football, football. I watch my games back and pick out what didn't go right and try to make sure it goes well next time.
~ Romelu Lukaku
In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
~ Warren Littlefield
I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
~ Dallas Roberts
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
~ Roger Ebert
I was sent a copy of Richard Dawkins' amusing book, The God Delusion, by an anonymous donor, so I feel I should at least try to review it. This isn't easy. I got as far as page 36 before chucking it across the room in disgust. I was in the Boston Tea Party on Park Street in Bristol. I warned the other customers to get out of my line of fire first.
~ Andrew Rilstone
Why the gay press doesn't review your books? They don't? They don't, Arthur. Don't pretend you haven't noticed. You're not in the cannon.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
A mediocre review or careless slight can no longer harm him, but heartbreak, real true heartbreak, can pierce his thin hide and bring out the same shade of blood as ever. How can so many things become a bore by middle age—philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods—but heartbreak keeps its sting? Perhaps because he finds fresh sources for
~ Andrew Sean Greer
I will find your books and review with nastiness.
~ Andy Warhol
England's Flying Saucer Review
~ John A. Keel
Relief came in the form of a "tab" show—an hour long (see Warner Bros. Footlight Parade for examples) musical review that played in the movie theatres with the film. It was a traveling show and Pan, whose job it was to create the dances as well as perform them, got good experience in the fine art of "doubling in brass.
~ John C. Tibbetts
I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.
~ Steve Martin
accurate balance sheet, which I do about once a year.
~ Edward O. Thorp
Review not a writer; read, analyze and understand its writing, which also mirrors and reflects its thoughts and persona.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The best thing you can do for a writer is give them a bad review.
~ Eileen Myles
The holistic review of weekend curfew & lockdown shows clearly that it gives bumper profit to only a few who created the atmosphere of fear via stories of artificial virus to grow their business and economically hit rest of the population.
~ Anuj Somany
I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Just like only qualified people should work in films, only qualified people should review the film.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
That's what we do as a nation, we're all Monday morning quarterbacks.
~ Oliver Luck
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
~ Caleb Cushing
At the end of the game, coaches always talk about what could have been done differently with the game plan.
~ Anne Donovan