Famous quotes by Critics

"The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"It's not a crime to get drunk"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"If it were better, it wouldn't be as good"

Brendan Gill, Critic

"I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies"

Brendan Gill, Critic

"In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"Parody is homage gone sour"

Brendan Gill, Critic

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious"

Brendan Gill, Critic

"The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster"

Chris Morris, Critic

"A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire"

Chris Morris, Critic

"The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on"

Ada Louise Huxtable, Critic

"One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds"

Alfred Kazin, Critic

"In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right"

Paul Elmer More, Critic

"Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains"

Edward Dowden, Critic

"Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?"

E. T. A. Hoffmann, Critic

"Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand"

E. T. A. Hoffmann, Critic

"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

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