Famous quotes by Critics

"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success"

Edward Dowden, Critic

"When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair"

Alfred Kazin, Critic

"We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference"

Paul Elmer More, Critic

"I am alone here in New York, no longer a we"

Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic

"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you"

Malcolm Cowley, Critic

"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive is not worth the price we paid"

Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic

"Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain"

E. T. A. Hoffmann, Critic

"It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction"

E. T. A. Hoffmann, Critic

"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting, they would not do, is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"Also, the commercial media, in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"I liked television, and television liked me"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

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