#criticism

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#criticism #memory #verbal-abuse #words #ignorance

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. ↗

— Aristotle

#criticism

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.) ↗

— Simon Cowell

#criticism #judging #wit #wit

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#criticism #gossip #speech #gossip

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#defeat #destroy #entire #everyone #families

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#bad-reviews #boring #complain #literary-criticism #lotr

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

#criticism #critics #dine #get #gets

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that. ↗

— John Cusack

#correct #criticism #get #going #into

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#against #before #bush #bush administration #come

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#american #criticism #foot #government #iranian