Quotes of: Critical-mass Keyword

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

Charles Bukowski

As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.

Gordon Gee

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Gordon B. Hinckley

When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

Gary Lineker

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

George Steiner

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.

George C. Williams

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

Harold Bloom

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes...

Helen Fielding

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

Joe Manchin

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

John Milius

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

Jehane Noujaim

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.

Jeremy Northam

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.

Jack Osbourne

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

Joyce Carol Oates

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

John Crowe Ransom

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

Justin Rosenstein

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

Joanna Scott

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

James Whistler

At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.

Desi Arnaz

If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.

Donna Brazile

I've been criticized because I've had the temerity to speak out and done a couple of interviews since I left office. I don't find anything surprising about that.

Dick Cheney