Criticism Tone Quotes

I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure.

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things.

Once again we're talking to Brian Kenny, a man of many traits, a master of nothing.

The Democrats are the people who willingly allow their testicles in a lockbox somewhere.

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

There are some movies that deserve criticism. They want people to know that it's a great dramatic accomplishment and has some great performances in it. But, c'mon. Yes, you will have some fun if you go see 'Snakes on a Plane.' Snakes are biting people - and they're biting them right on screen. There's nothing to review. It's not 'Snakes on the Waterfront.' You don't have snakes going, 'I coulda been a constrictor.' No. Hell no. It's 'Snakes on a Plane.'

Thou art a very ragged Wart.

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!

Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

The hardest thing about living in Canberra is that almost everyone who doesn't live here asks: 'Why on earth would you live in Canberra?' Loudly, and in a way they would never use to discuss anywhere else. And they never listen to the answer.

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.