Reviews Quotes - Page 27

• I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc. These are impossible demands, however, and they can never be satisfied. Letting finite others define our worth is a horrible way to live. Only the Infinite Other [God] has the authority to do this.

  Jon Foreman

  Thinking, Albums, Way To Live

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

  Susan Faludi

  Book, Responsibility, Fighting

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• A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Writing, Long, Novelists

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• Everyone is skeptical. Only the media are not skeptical, but, then, they were also not skeptical when the administration put out the line that coordinated embassy attacks around the globe on the anniversary of 9/11 were just rowdy movie reviews. Numbers on a TV screen won't prevent millions of Americans from noticing that they're unemployed.

  Ann Coulter

  Numbers, Media, Lines

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• To review ones store is to mow twice.

  George Herbert

  Stores

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.181

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• I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

  Elton John

  Taken, Giving, Magazines

  "Elton John: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.

  Ben Kingsley

  Jobs, Reading, Interviews

  "Sir Ben Kingsley Talks the Boxtrolls, What Convinced Him to Voice an Animated Villain, His Opinion of the Shakespearean Snatcher, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. September 20, 2014.

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• President Obama has announced a task force to review the tax codes. He's concerned there are too many loopholes and too many people manipulating the system to avoid paying taxes. And that's just in his administration.

  Jay Leno

  People, President, Administration

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• National Review once opined, many years ago, that, every year, the Nobel peace prize should go to the U.S. secretary of defense: The American military is the number-one guarantor of peace in the world. But maybe something like a Nobel freedom prize would be a more appropriate award for Reagan than a peace prize.

  Jay Nordlinger

  Military, Years, Numbers

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• One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Lessons

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• Ye living soldiers of the mighty war,
  Once more from roaring cannon and the drums
  And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes;
  Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar:
  Once more your Captain calls to you;
  Come to his last review!

  Richard Watson Gilder

  War, Wounds And Scars, Soldier

  Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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• [To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  House, Negative, Sitting

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• There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

  Anna Quindlen

  New York, Party, Moving

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• What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

  Fanny Fern

  Book, Fall, Errors

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Religion, Source

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.63, Ravenio Books

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• I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Reading, Self, Conscious

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• I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

  Alison Moyet

  Independent, Gold, Littles

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• It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

  Bob Woodward

  Editors, Would Be, Stories

  "It Wasn't a Game" by Bill Green, www.washingtonpost.com. April 19, 1981.

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• If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

  Horace Greeley

  Memories, Practice, Principles

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• The Seconds that tick as the clock moves along
  Are Privates who march with a spirit so strong.
  The Minutes are Captains. The Hours of the day
  Are Officers brave, who lead on to the fray.
  So, remember, when tempted to loiter and dream
  You've an army at hand; your command is supreme;
  And question yourself, as it goes on review--
  Had it helped in the fight with the best it could do?

  Philander Chase Johnson

  Dream, Strong, Moving

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• The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

  Robert Bork

  Promise, Judicial Review, Constitution

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

  Rachel Cusk

  Writing, Average, Skins

  "I was only being honest" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. Match 21, 2008.

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• There is a movie called “Fargo” playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see “Little Indian, Big City,” I will never let you read one of my reviews again.

  Roger Ebert

  Cities, Littles, Fargo

  "Little Indian, Big City" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. March 22, 1996.

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• One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

  W. H. Auden

  Book, Criticism, Showing Off

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Reading"

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• Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?

  David Ives

  Jobs, Writing, Design

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