Quotes of: Critically Keyword

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Gregg Easterbrook

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

Jill Lepore

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

Hilary Mantel

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

Oswald Chambers

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

Park Chan-wook

My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.

Patricia Cornwell

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.

Peter Diamandis

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

Philippa Gregory

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

Paul Harris

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.

Patti LuPone

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Quentin Tarantino

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.

Richard Bausch

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

Rory Bremner

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

Rachel Cusk

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

Ron Fournier

Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more.

Raheel Farooq

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Richard Le Gallienne

Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.

Robin Marantz Henig

Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines.

Ryan Holmes

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

Randall Jarrell

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

Richard Lugar