There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

It’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

There’s backlash about everything I do.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It’s crazy. That’s my Alexander Wang theory.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

I don’t think it’s a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef’s a fat pig.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.