Critiscism Quotes & Sayings

I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession. — J.G. Ballard

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you. — Jeanie Thompson

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Alright, go away. I have a tiny world to save. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism. — Andy Stanley

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Islamic tradition does not recognize such presumptuous and conceited preoccupation as "reviewing", which is now widely practised among scholars who regard highly this legacy of the Western tradition modern scholarship. a Muslim scholar, with the work of another before him, would either - according to Islamic tradition - refute it (radd), or elaborate it further in commentary (sharh) as the occasion demands. there is no such thing as "reviewing" it, whether the "review" is termed as such or as any other term which describes it. If there are petty mistakes they turn a blind eye to them; if there are obscurities they explain them in commentary - they polish a positive work and make it shine. — Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself. — Harlan Coben

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella. — Katherine Mansfield

What I don't know don't keep me hostage. It's your love that locks me up and I want you to know that I love the way you make my heart tear up. — Tegan Quin