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I try not to speak to critics. It only encourages them.
-Snagglepuss — Mark Russell

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. — Mitch Albom

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. — John Simm

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper

Literary critics make natural detectives. — A.S. Byatt

All critics should be assassinated. — Man Ray

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are. — Ted Allen

Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context. — Rush Limbaugh

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama. — Peter Schiff

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. — Edmund Wilson

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. — F Scott Fitzgerald

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves. — Robert Adams

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. — Jacqueline Leo

Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates. — Orrin Woodward

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie. — Elvis Costello

I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one and I'll use it. — Tim LaHaye

The devil's happy when the critics run you off. — Criss Jami

under the live oaks on the square. Attentive critics of courthouse business, Atticus said — Harper Lee

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama. — P. J. O'Rourke

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. — Doris Lessing

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique. — Jean Cocteau

Women critics are amazons in climax. — Faina Ranevskaya

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To go after what you want in life, you have to silence the critics, starting with the biggest one: you. — Regina Brett

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece. — Jim Dine

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest! — Arthur Conan Doyle

How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder. — John Waters

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell

I feel like we tend to be our own worst critics. — An Na

Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. — John Osborne

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. — David Coverdale

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook

As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers. — Parul Sehgal

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun. — Katy Perry

If you don't have critics, you probably don't have success either. — Nicki Minaj

We don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying. — Jimmy Wales

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics. — Gregory Nunn

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. — Benjamin Disraeli

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.' — Dylan Moran

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose. — Max Muller

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose. — Tim McGraw

Historians and critics too often overlook the state of mind of the commanders in judging a military or naval action. — Tameichi Hara

Your destiny is not determined by your critics. Focus on running your own race. — Joel Osteen

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy. — Andre Rieu

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on. — Justin Trudeau

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice. — David Gerrold

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist. — Alan Parker

If the caterpillar listened to his critics, he would never become a butterfly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. — Victor Hugo

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history. — John Eliot

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. — Antony Gormley

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. — Natalie Goldberg

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely. — Edward Abbey

Youth need less critics and more models. — Thomas S. Monson

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie. — Roger Ebert

Diddums. Critics claim that somebody who had no children could — Liz Nugent

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves! — Harry Cohn

When the critics come around it's always too late. — Sidney Nolan

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good. — Norman Wisdom

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. — Nat King Cole

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness. — Michael Haneke

You have to have courage to stand up to your critics. — Enzo Ferrari

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind. — Quincy Jones

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. — Graham Nash

The critics don't build great cities — Federico Pena

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you. — Bryant McGill

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. — Alexander Pope

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be. — John C. Reilly

Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work. — Wendell Berry

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. — Irwin Shaw

Most snarky critics had their minds set before ever seeing/playing the game. I'm proud of what we created; it's innovative, responsive & fun. — Tony Hawk

Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic — Werner Erhard

Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that. — Roselee Goldberg

Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all. — Michael P. Naughton

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! — Joyce Carol Oates

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. — Oscar Wilde

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. — Paul Emsley

To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it. — Ricky Gervais

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars. — Plato

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV? — Willard Scott

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. — Abraham Lincoln

I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT CRITICS, LIKE I SAID THEY DONT BUY TICKETS. — Larry The Cable Guy

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. — Ambrose Bierce

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth. — Wilhelm Steinitz

There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill. — Allison Mackie

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like. — H.L. Mencken

You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going. — Robin Williams

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood. — Bear Bryant

Ignore the critics ... Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different! — Dita Von Teese

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself. — Donnie Yen

Which of my two critics was I to believe? I didn't worry about it and very soon made up my mind they were both idiots. — Henry James