Famous quotes by Critics

"And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being"

Paul de Man, Critic

"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means"

Paul de Man, Critic

"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time"

James Agate, Critic

"The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working"

Ernest Newman, Critic

"No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it"

Timothy White, Critic

"Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"I'm just a vessel of information"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"No one likes change but babies in diapers"

Barbara Johnson, Critic

"If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God"

Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic

"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave"

Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic

"What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober"

Kenneth Tynan, Critic

"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one"

Kenneth Tynan, Critic

"It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you, but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

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