Quotes of: Critical-mass Keyword

I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we h...

Jennifer Donnelly

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not becau...

John F. Kennedy

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Pulp Fiction

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

Critical Path

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

The Critic

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

An Essay on Criticism

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

An Essay on Criticism

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

An Experiment in Criticism

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

An Essay on Criticism

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

Eastern Standard Tribe

The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

A brick could be used to silence your critics. Think of it like a really thick and unchewy piece of chewing gum.  

Blanket

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery

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

Collected Poems, 1909-1962

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Li Ka-shing

No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.

Will Arnett

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

James Polshek

I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.

Charles Saatchi

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.

Helen Vendler

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Leslie Fiedler