#praised

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#because #dangerously #i #loathe #most

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#authorities #beyond #common #common sense #convinced

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#asked #debate #excited #get #great

South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#curses #drive #evening #games #hard

Now God be praised, I will die in peace. ↗

— James Wolfe

#god #i #now #peace #praised

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. ↗

— John Adams

#beloved #considered #desire #discovered #dispositions

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#circle #exactly #praised #round

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#come #damned #discouraged #encouraged #important

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable? ↗

— Ana Castillo

#aesthetic #brown #could #everything #i

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#got #had #i #imagination #just