Robin Van Persie Quotes

In my view, a review should be like talking to a friend who's just asked you, 'What was it like?' You're giving a verdict on an experience, not trying for a definitive last judgment.

Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.

To win, you have to score; if I can do that frequently, my job is done.

One of my main goals is to become a sports broadcaster. That is the ultimate for me.

We need to become more ruthless and critical in front of goal.

I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.

You can call it ugly if you want, but I'd call it a win.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Woodcock would have scored but his shot was too perfect.

People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable

If people are reacting to films based on their degree of success or failure, then they're not really looking at the movie. I don't really care about that. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but at least base your opinion on the merit of the work itself.

I truly believe that if you think something's stupid, that might mean it's actually good.

Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it's always worse.