Quotes of Review - somelinesforyou

“ In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ I can't say I knew very much about the magazine,... I've had lots of telephone interviews with magazines... I don't have to agree with their views. ”

- John Ashcroft

“ In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell. ”

- Sir Walter Raleigh

“ I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving. ”

- Bridget Hall

“ And that, by the way, is not a subjective analysis — that's the analysis of any environmentalist. ”

- Chuck Hagel

“ There's such a thing as paralysis by analysis and I think I reached that point. ”

- Alanis Morissette

“ I like criticism, but it must be my way. ”

- Mark Twain

“ There has to be an inner peace process that treats gang members like traumatized war victims who lack counseling, jobs, and respect. A lot of that has got to be self-administered in affinity groups, counseling groups, in jail and out of jail, with resources and professional help. ”

- Tom Hayden

“ Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. ”

- William Faulkner

“ Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing. ”

- Virgil Thomson

“ Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies. ”

- Judith Butler

“ Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune… ”

- Thomas J. Peters

“ REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. ”

- John Updike

“ When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank. ”

- Liberace

“ One cannot review a bad book without showing off. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works… ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

“ Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing. ”

- Unknown

“ A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. ”

- Iris Murdoch

“ A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. ”

- Dustin Hoffman

“ Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ He who reviews old knowledge and continues to learn new knowledge is fit to teach others. ”

- Confucius

“ I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review. ”

- Edward Dahlberg

“ Review our priorities, ask the question: What's the best use of our time right now? ”

- Alan Lakein

“ Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. ”

- Les Brown

“ When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment. ”

- William B. Given Jr.

“ He who keeps on reviewing his old knowledge and acquiring new knowledge may become a teacher of others. ”

- Confucius
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