#praises

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#am #audience #audience member #concerned #critic

He who praises everybody, praises nobody. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#nobody #praises #who

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#any #cannot #certain #change #criticism

Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#deliver #guys #lord #praises #sang

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. ↗

— Herman Melville

#any #before #best #children #even

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#buried #dead #fame #flowers #future