Quotes of: Critical-time Keyword

I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.

Dave Pelzer

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

James Nachtwey

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

Choke

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

Elizabeth Berkley

Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit daughter of Heavenly Father who is destined to play a critical part in the onward movement of the gospel kingdom.

Sheri L. Dew

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

Luc Montagnier

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Brian Lumley

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

F. Sionil Jose

Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.

Shaping the dream

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Middlemarch

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

Guy Davenport

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

Nancy Reagan

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

Octavia E. Butler

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Oliver Goldsmith

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Orson Welles

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Piers Anthony

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Paulo Coelho

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Pauline Kael

'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.

P. J. O'Rourke