#critics

Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service. ↗

— John Sununu

#call #ceos #contend #critics #executives

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. ↗

— Walt Disney

#critics #entertain #i #public #take

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#answers #critics #forget #own #tend

Everybody hates critics. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#everybody #hates

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired. ↗

— John Milius

#been #critics #darling #everybody #i

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#critics #age

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#generals #george-b-mcclellan #leadership #united-states-congress #war

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends. ↗

— James Payn

#friends #good-natured #hearth #high #impossible

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please? ↗

— David Ives

#humor #theatre #design

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#book-critics #jealousy #jealousy