Critique Crossword Quotes & Sayings

In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?' — Charles Hazlewood

Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative. — Stephen Colbert

Being seen is more about the ears than the eyes — Ali Benjamin

Language is just as rule-based in its newest slang forms, and just as sophisticated as it ever was in ancient Rome. But the rules, now as then, are written from below, not from above. — Matt Ridley

If My New Album Isn't Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong! — Adam Lambert

There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world. — William Sloane Coffin

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop. — Steven Sinofsky

The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet — Kevin Keegan

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite. — Taylor Caldwell

Good stories are constructed, not found, — Warren Spector

Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy. — Sharon Salzberg

What makes life interesting are the challenges we face. — Paulo Coelho