“That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.” LoveBookSimpleWonderfulCriticsAdmireAdmirationFastidious Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.” ThreeTeacherWonderfulJudgmentApproachCriticsEnglishmenInfallibleColossalFrenchmen Author:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
“I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews, ban the critics. The readers should be alone with the books, and if anyone dared to say anything about them, they would be shot or imprisoned right on the spot. Yes, shot. A 100-year moratorium on insufferable literary talk. You should let people fight with the books on their own and rediscover what they are and what they are not. Anything other than this talk.” PeopleIfsShouldYearsBookWould BeFightingLiteratureWonderfulReaderShotsCriticsSpotsDepartmentReviewsSay AnythingBansInsufferableBook Review Author:Philip Roth
“Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.” FilmSocialStepsWonderfulGeniusCriticsSettingSettingsVulnerablePoeticSuspectsCriticizeWoody Author:Mel Brooks
“From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.” PeopleIfsYearsLittlesImportantFilmCoursesFoundOpinionWonderfulCriticsAffectionCriticalListsReputationInstanceAll TimeRemarkableWhat IfLastingReviewsDividedAll Time Best Author:Stanley Kubrick
“I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone to something else because they got such a raw deal from critics, and some are quite wonderful writers.” KnowsHas BeensWould BeAgeDealsGoneWonderfulCriticsBitterPlaywright Author:Jennifer Tipton
“It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.” ChoicesActorsSawsWonderfulFitCriticsCloudsNineAwardsAcademySupporting ActorsCloud Nine Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me 'Oh wonderful, great you did!' we have to live with critics, this is normal. Chariots of the Gods was full of speculation, I had 238 question marks. Nobody read the question mark. They always said: Mr. Von Daniken is saying... I did not say, I asked the questions, would that be a posibility? In Chariots of the Gods, I made clear difference between a speculations and facts.” MadeSaidFactsCommunityDifferencesClearWonderfulKissingNormalMarkEmbraceCriticsSpeculationKiss MeChariotsQuestion Mark Author:Erich von Däniken
“I thought it would fit a niche. I didn't anticipate, nor do I think anybody did, that it would become this global phenomenon, the way that it has. The critics have been so kind and favorable, it has really garnered such wonderful praise, and the numbers have been through the roof. It's actually been quite surreal. I'm still pinching myself because it's amazing. For me, we went to Atlanta and we spent our summer shooting this little zombie show, and it was ours. It was our sweet little zombie show [The Walking Dead], and the world has embraced us.” ThinkingWorldWayKindLittlesHas BeensStillsShowsNumbersWonderfulSweetFitWalkingSummerPraiseCriticsShootingPhenomenonRoofZombieSurrealAnticipateNicheAtlantaWalking DeadPinching Author:Laurie Holden
“I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that.” MenLongDonePlayStoriesRoomsWonderfulWrittenTeamHavensNew YorkMajorsEnglandTheaterCriticsReviewsRugbyPremieresRaveConnecticutWonderful Man Author:Richard Masur