Nostradamus Quotes

I think naturally you want to judge things.

It's funny to be a critic.

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

The audience is my hardest and best critic.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at a very small expense

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

The now, the here, through which all future plunges into the past.

It is much easier to make the speeches than to finally make the judgments.

The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

I've turned down many pictures, mostly because I didn't like them.

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.