#criticism

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fire #honest #means #nothing #passion

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. ↗

— Van Morrison

#criticism #good #i #i do #most

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#criticism #others #own #value

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families. ↗

— George Osborne

#away #benefit #child #criticism #example

Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#ageism #album #applaud #bless #both

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#criticism #despise #european #film #film criticism

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#became #capital #charm #convinced #criticism

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt. ↗

— Dan Rather

#criticism #his #hurt #just #justified

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#deceives #few #few people #good #people

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#care #criticism #i #i do #like