#critics

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

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

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#even #fair #heed #not fair #resist

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#critics #free #get #records

I have always said that whomever has limited preferences cannot be a critic, for the same reason some guy who only likes blondes cant be a jury in a beauty contest, for his idea of beauty is predefined and not based on dynamic reality. Thus, what people call 'preferences' are in fact exactly what makes them blind. For this reason being a writer also means you essentially cannot have the same markup as ordinary people, because getting rid of the precomposed is a too essential part of the whole dynamics of writing. ↗

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

#critics #beauty

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction. ↗

— Joel Siegel

#direction #excellent #performances #understand

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#camera #critic #critics #does #eye

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from. ↗

— Allen Tate

#came #critics #directly #fixing #hard

I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#choice #comedian #critics #drama #guy

The critics hated it. What’s worse, not a single person in that audience could give any reasoned arguments. Why they came out just to waste their good judgment is another thing I’ll never know. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #humor #funny