Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jess Walter

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

Tom DeLay

I think that the judicial system should not be open to the kind of criticism that would naturally happen if Judge Perkins remains on the case,

Robert M. Gates

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Walter Lippmann

Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

Winston Churchill

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

Steve Vai

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

Rose Tremain

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'

Yolanda Adams

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

W. Somerset Maugham

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Voltaire

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Myles Munroe

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

John Gay

Praising all alike, is praising none.

Ben Jonson

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Norm MacDonald

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.