#critic

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. ↗

— Tyne Daly

#afterwards #battle #comes #critic #goes

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#focus #hear #hurtful #praises #reason

In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: ‘It isn’t, really it isnt, merely because you are so beautiful – though of course that is a large reason & so it should be – that I love you: it is your mind & your character – I have never known anyone like you in that – wont you believe me? ↗

— Jane Goldman

#beauty

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#between #created #critical #difference #energy

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#criticism #cultural #dealing #ending #feminism

Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#critical #during #faculty #had #himself

Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#bush #counterterrorism #country #critics #defend

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#created #critic #function #never #proper

Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors were by and large a mixture of effort and imagination, the embodiment of a solitary endeavor, of a sometimes long-nurtured dream, when they were not a desperate bid to give life meaning. ↗

— Félix J. Palma

#writers-on-writing #dreams

If I were white, I'd get less criticism. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#get #i #less #were #white