All Quotes

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
‐‐ Sachin Tendulkar

Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler

Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service.
‐‐ John Sununu

Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.
‐‐ Derek Bok

Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.
‐‐ David Shuster

Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.
‐‐ Gillian Armstrong

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.
‐‐ Andre Rieu

Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy.
‐‐ Nick Denton

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
‐‐ Peter Ustinov

Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches.
‐‐ Sarah MacLean

Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.
‐‐ John Simm

Critics should stick to their convictions.
‐‐ Chuck Eddy

Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.
‐‐ James Wan

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
‐‐ Mickey Spillane

Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.
‐‐ Chris Pine

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
‐‐ Robert Burns

Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus

Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel.
‐‐ Terence Winter

Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.
‐‐ Stjepan Mesic

Croatia has been glorious - it's so beautiful, and I want to go back as often as I can.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

Croatia is an amazing place.
‐‐ Jean Reno

'Crocodile Dundee' is about people; it's 10 seconds about crocodiles.
‐‐ Paul Hogan

Crocodiles are really bold, and they do come up on land.
‐‐ Linda Kozlowski

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.
‐‐ Charles Koch

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.
‐‐ Howard Graham Buffett

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.
‐‐ Jane Kaczmarek

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
‐‐ Steven Wright

Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
‐‐ Jeane Kirkpatrick

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
‐‐ Imran Khan

Cross platform, we have opportunity across all our businesses to not only take the most well-known and high-profile brands and bring them to life with the guidance of people who know them well, but to incubate new ones.
‐‐ Diane Nelson

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.
‐‐ Maximillian Degenerez

Crossfire's done very well. I knew it was a great song, but I didn't know it would be so big.
‐‐ Brandon Flowers

CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.
‐‐ Bob Harper

Crossing the line and being world champion, I've always dreamt about it, and now I've done it. It's quite a surreal feeling, but obviously very special.
‐‐ Lizzie Armitstead

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
‐‐ Francis Parkman

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.
‐‐ Evan Davis

Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.
‐‐ Karl Rove

Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.
‐‐ Larry Fitzgerald

'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.
‐‐ Ted Sarandos