Quotes of: Critical-time Keyword

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

Walter Kirn

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Walter Lippmann

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Wilson Mizner

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Will Self

I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt.

Steven Bauer

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

Cameron Russell

Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war.

David Plouffe

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

John Yoo

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Edward Everett Hale

I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way ...

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

We live in a largely addictive society that continues to reinforce the defenses we learned as children; this reinforcement comes in the form of a negative social pressure to soothe ourselves, to try to obtain instant gratification. . . Many people wh...

Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice: A Revolutionary Program to Counter Negative Thoughts and Live Free from Imagined Limitations

In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which most evangelicals have given up intellectual purs...

Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism

The American critic Dale Peck, author of Hatchet Jobs (2004), argues that reviewing finds its true character in critical GBH such as Fischer's [review of Martin Amis's Yellow Dog]. It represents a return to the prehistoric origins of reviewing in Zoi...

John Sutherland

Alejandro 'Jano' Montes de Oca: I didn't know you want to be a writer. What are you going to write about, "fine boys"? Tenoch: No, about faggots like you. Alejandro 'Jano' Montes de Oca: Well, let me tell you that there is a big difference between wr...

Y Tu Mamá También

Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching...

Future Shock

Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal identities which should be disappearing in a world where a European Union and globalization are happily shredding su...

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

It would not be too strong to say that I felt sane for the first time in my life. And yet the change in my consciousness seemed entirely straightforward. I was simply talking to my friend—about what, I don’t recall—and realized that I had cease...

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Those who correct others should watch for the Holy Spirit to go ahead of them and touch a person's heart. Learn to imitate Him who reproves gently. . . . When you become outraged over a person's fault, it is generally not "righteous indignation" but ...

Francois Fenelon

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

Of Human Bondage

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.

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