Quotes of: Critical-time Keyword

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as a...

Natalie Portman

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's...

Mike D

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

Ivan Reitman

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Karl Lagerfeld

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

Mel Gibson

Give no time to finding fault of criticism.

Marvin J. Ashton

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

Paul Thomas Anderson

There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to o...

Jo Bonner

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short. Then the Readers die one by one and the Work continues on alone, although a new Criticism and new...

The Savage Detectives

If God has given you a mission, you must be tough enough to handle what people say and still not be distracted while doing what you were created to do. Are you tough enough? God and the enemy know the truth about you, and remember even great people d...

Bishop T.D. Jakes

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

Joe Regalbuto

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

A. P. Herbert

Time is the only critic without ambition.

John Steinbeck

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Ever...

Mark Twain

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a ...

Sean Covey

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

LeRoy Neiman

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchan...

Simon Mainwaring