Famous quotes by Critics

"I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"I feel great, the prognosis is excellent"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next"

Barbara Johnson, Critic

"The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Audiences deserve better"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears"

Barbara Johnson, Critic

"Quality survives"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces"

James Agate, Critic

"The higher the voice, the smaller the intellect"

Ernest Newman, Critic

"So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made"

James Agate, Critic

"Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

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