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.

Denny Green

I think the criticism should be on me. I'm the one who made the judgment that the line needed to be revamped.

Gero Neugebauer

I think that there has been criticism directed at Schroeder from inside the party. Schroeder is doing some downgrading of the price of a grand coalition, but that doesn't mean he is completely out of the race for chancellor.

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,

Oscar Wilde

Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

Bob Castellini

There is no criticism of Dan. I just needed my own person.

Jeb Bush

I thought the vice president overcompensated after the criticism he got from the first debate. He was too calm.

Robert M. Gates

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

Roger Ebert

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

Ward Churchill

There's always merit to having a debate.

Samuel Johnson

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

Mr Howard

If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),

Epictetus

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

John Dryden

There is a proud modesty in merit.

Source Unknown

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Chanakya

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Samuel Johnson

Applause abates diligence.

Voltaire

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

Jim Calhoun

Everyone praised us, ... It was, 'They stuck around.'

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.