Keyword: Criticism (Page 2)

The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.

(1919 – 2011) American news commentator & writer
Communication Politicians

Has anyone told the Fox News anchors that Mad Men was not a documentary of how America should be?

American television critic
Reviews/Criticism

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

(1894 – 1986) British prime minister
Communication Intelligence Politicians

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he’d be a drama critic.

(1928 – ) playwright
Beliefs Opinion

I can take any amount of criticism so long as it is unqualified praise.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Communication People Self

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor
Communication Language

If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting.

(1897 – 1953) American writer & producer
Communication

The ‘g’ is silent… the only thing about her that is.

(1959 – ) English writer & columnist
Communication Insults Speech

Nothing but old fags and cabbage-stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness.

(1885 – 1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic & painter
Communication Insults

Yeah, I tried to see it from your point of view, but I couldn’t get my head that far up my ass.

(1965 – ) comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer & director
Communication Insults

The amount of flak received on any subject is inversely proportional to the subject’s true value.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

A good review is considered nepotism; a bad one professional jealousy.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Opinion

She's generous to a fault… if it's her own.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Characteristics Communication

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

(1925 – 1990) Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
Beliefs Hockey Opinion Sports

A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

(1926 – 2007) American jazz critic & book reviewer
Communication Death Occupations Work

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist
Communication

One could not even dignify him with the name of a stuffed shirt; he was simply a hole on the air.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 50) English author & journalist
Communication Insults

I doubt that art needed [John] Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter
Art Entertainment Insults

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

(1910 – 1991) American art historian, photographer, author & editor
Books Communication Reading/Writing

Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner is a first-and-ten capitalist in a bunt-and-run world.

American sportswriter
Baseball Communication Sports

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Appearance Body Insults