Top 100 For Review Quotes

#1. With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

Kevin Rose

For Review Quotes #269332
#2. The secret to staying atop your priorities is to schooled regular times for review and reflection.

Michael Hyatt

For Review Quotes #532153
#3. There were several packages waiting for me at the post office
and I only barely squealed. They were advanced reader copies
from other bloggers passing them along for review. And I was,
like, whatever. Sure evidence I was coming down with mad cow
disease.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

For Review Quotes #989637
#4. Increase calls for review, check-up,control, and analysis.

Sunday Adelaja

For Review Quotes #1298095
#5. One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

Mary Roach

For Review Quotes #1685935
#6. This book came to me for review, but when I observed its count of pages I quietly dropped it behind the piano.

H.L. Mencken

For Review Quotes #1750338
#7. The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

Joyce Carol Oates

For Review Quotes #1776675
#8. I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

Edmund White

For Review Quotes #7869
#9. My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.

Hank Stuever

For Review Quotes #19135
#10. Advocates may write a review for you today but that same Advocate will continue recommending you for weeks, months, years. Advocacy has longevity,

Rob Fuggetta

For Review Quotes #83660
#11. Intelligent tax planning calls for changes in approach every few years. It is, therefore, recommended that you must review your investment and tax planning perspective at least every decade and reorient it depending on the facts and circumstances of the situation.

Ram Niwas Lakhotia

For Review Quotes #86349
#12. An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who's the better writer?

Jason Lutes

For Review Quotes #168454
#13. Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of Violence Against Women bill into a political football. The Republicans are offering an improved version of the reauthorization bill and I want to review it.

Sarah Steelman

For Review Quotes #195714
#14. For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

Jane Austen

For Review Quotes #213933
#15. I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

Moshe Safdie

For Review Quotes #214002
#16. Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions of all men and women have their day and the world will still be better off, for there is more good than bad in the sum of us and our workings.

Norman Mailer

For Review Quotes #236587
#17. The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.

Dorothy Parker

For Review Quotes #245725
#18. I concoct that deal in my head and then attempt to make her fulfill her end of the unspoken bargain.

Matthew Quick

For Review Quotes #251459
#19. I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

Marguerite Young

For Review Quotes #268320
#20. Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer without bodyguards can hardly be considered serious. A bad review is the least of our problems.

Hanif Kureishi

For Review Quotes #269023
#21. If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

Pope Francis

For Review Quotes #273480
#22. Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

Jane Austen

For Review Quotes #283212
#23. Luc : It's time for our annual review of Rules You Disrespectful Bastards Never Follow.

Chloe Neill

For Review Quotes #311889
#24. How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.

John Banville

For Review Quotes #350155
#25. Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

Lamar S. Smith

For Review Quotes #365621
#26. You now can buy my book on amazon barnes & noble createspace and book review is to come for this book in 45 days

Todd Johnson

For Review Quotes #367867
#27. I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.

Siri Hustvedt

For Review Quotes #381778
#28. Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review.

Michael Ignatieff

For Review Quotes #394652
#29. I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

John Podhoretz

For Review Quotes #403643
#30. When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.

Claire Tomalin

For Review Quotes #406556
#31. It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

Mel Torme

For Review Quotes #414585
#32. All a starred review amounts to is an expression of brand loyalty, an assertion of personal preference for one brand of literature above another. It is as hopelessly beside the point as giving four stars to your mother, three stars to your childhood, or two stars to your cat.

Eleanor Catton

For Review Quotes #423668
#33. See Amazon's bio on don loedding and a review of his first book of short stories"The Search For the Bearded Clam" and read inside "Global Warming:The Iceman Cometh".

Donald R. Loedding

For Review Quotes #428292
#34. (1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do.

David Allen

For Review Quotes #442556
#35. Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

Ann Patchett

For Review Quotes #457985
#36. i listed my faults under a book called
Retail Ramblings
by Kevin Domenic (Goodreads Author)

in the comments for the review by Leanne Bell, someone i love dearly and wish i never hurt and forced her to go.

Kevin Domenic

For Review Quotes #486486
#37. The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

David Byrne

For Review Quotes #489019
#38. Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open.

Peter Dawson

For Review Quotes #497006
#39. I never can understand why people take the time to leave a negative review on a book or piece of artwork. There are other ways for you to find outlets in the world.

K.L. Adams

For Review Quotes #499617
#40. We were very grateful that the response [for Jessica Jones series] has been so positive. If we get a great review, then more people watch it. It's so exciting!

Krysten Ritter

For Review Quotes #499723
#41. If you play poorly one day, forget it.
If you play poorly the next time out, review your fundamentals of grip, stance, aim and ball position. Most mistakes are made before the club is swung.
If you play poorly for a third time in a row, go see your professional.

Harvey Penick

For Review Quotes #504681
#42. A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

Arthur Smith

For Review Quotes #521179
#43. Because this absolutely insane - the craziest thing I'd ever done. Worse than giving a one-star review, scarier than asking for an interview with an author I'd give my firstborn to eat lunch with, more stupid than kissing Daemon.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

For Review Quotes #554803
#44. Just as it's unfair to review a taco stand for not being a four-star restaurant, I also have to be mindful that not every drama on TV is trying to be "The Wire."

Hank Stuever

For Review Quotes #582180
#45. Is it ever worthwhile to buy a review? Not in my opinion. With independent paid review services, quality can be a problem; plus, there are plenty of non-professional book review venues out there that will review for free.

Victoria Strauss

For Review Quotes #594236
#46. Some of the most effective segments are interviews with various staff members, including Aila, who works for the center's legal department. She explains the difficulties of rape prosecution, concluding that "only the survivor" can truly define justice. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

For Review Quotes #601171
#47. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.
[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]

David Foster Wallace

For Review Quotes #619616
#48. I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

Gail Sheehy

For Review Quotes #621945
#49. I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Charles Stross

For Review Quotes #644715
#50. The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

W. Edwards Deming

For Review Quotes #652809
#51. An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

Jack Canfield

For Review Quotes #655950
#52. There are two kinds of reviews: Good ones and bad ones. Within that sliding scale there are two other categories: Favorable and Unfavorable.

Of course, I hope for all Good Reviews that are also Favorable - but how likely is that? If a review isn't favorable, I just hope is well-written.

R.S. Mellette

For Review Quotes #665161
#53. In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

Tim Holden

For Review Quotes #669890
#54. When Goldberg's 'Liberal Fascism' came out in January 2008, his employer 'National Review Online' announced that Tribune Media Services, which carries Goldberg's opinion columns, had 'nominated' Goldberg for a Pulitzer in commentary.

Bill Dedman

For Review Quotes #688733
#55. Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard to the zoning ordinance, the Council sees a comprehensive approach, the ORC wants to review the ordinances and simplify them. Pam's vision was counter to that.

Norman Foster

For Review Quotes #690635
#56. I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

Eddie Campbell

For Review Quotes #716103
#57. Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater, and flat feet. Another key element is "Strong Father Figure / Fear Thereof."

Tina Fey

For Review Quotes #718888
#58. I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but I don't tweet. I don't want to have to express my opinion in 140 characters. That's like writing haiku. You need a certain amount of legroom to review a play properly.

Ben Brantley

For Review Quotes #722139
#59. Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.

Richard Ford

For Review Quotes #728690
#60. All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

For Review Quotes #748325
#61. I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.

Harry S. Truman

For Review Quotes #782305
#62. I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.

Hillary Clinton

For Review Quotes #784143
#63. As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many different ways, whether or not it made this list or got that review, etc. I'm sure some of that thinking has been useful to me as a writer as well.

Danielle Dutton

For Review Quotes #794689
#64. It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

Edward Abbey

For Review Quotes #816804
#65. For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.

Bennett Miller

For Review Quotes #836878
#66. When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.

Apollonius Of Tyana

For Review Quotes #864854
#67. If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

Gough Whitlam

For Review Quotes #867424
#68. The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

E.B. White

For Review Quotes #871254
#69. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs.

George H. W. Bush

For Review Quotes #900831
#70. MERCER USED TO PASS THE TIME, during his post-grad months of flipping burgers out on Route 17, by polishing his opinions on life and literature for that future date when they would grace the pages of The Paris Review.

Garth Risk Hallberg

For Review Quotes #939310
#71. For once I am living my life rather than watching it pass in review.

Lee Smith

For Review Quotes #955484
#72. E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

Anne Lamott

For Review Quotes #965372
#73. [A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)

P.G. Wodehouse

For Review Quotes #968676
#74. You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.

Ben Barnes

For Review Quotes #968898
#75. For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

Mark Lynas

For Review Quotes #981680
#76. I have never read a review for anything I have ever done, be it for theater or movies, just because. I am really good about that. And YouTube comments. People will hide behind that.

Skylar Astin

For Review Quotes #984208
#77. I believe love is why we're here on the planet and that ultimately it's our purpose for life. They say people who've had near-death experiences often report back that at the end of our lives we have a life review and we're asked one question, and that question is, how much did you love?

Marci Shimoff

For Review Quotes #986471
#78. The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

Fay Vincent

For Review Quotes #1000151
#79. There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.

L.V. Lewis

For Review Quotes #1007772
#80. I review books."
"Do you get paid for them?"
I laughed out loud at that. "No, not at all."
Daemon seemed confused by that. "So you review books and you don't get paid if someone buys a book based on your review?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

For Review Quotes #1017773
#81. Rehearsals at the Silver Slipper's Burlesque Review had been brutal because of the physical toll on the body. Rehearsals for Cristos the Incredible were brutal because Cristos was an ass.

Kristen Painter

For Review Quotes #1017815
#82. My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

Sandra Bullock

For Review Quotes #1025833
#83. For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Billy Corgan

For Review Quotes #1031169
#84. The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared.

Jo Bonner

For Review Quotes #1046397
#85. A good multitasker always sets aside time at the end of the day to review what has happened today, and based on what must happen tomorrow, creates a plan of attack for the next day.

Martin Yate

For Review Quotes #1055614
#86. Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up

Alexandra Potter

For Review Quotes #1058622
#87. I have one rave 'New York Times' review framed next to a flop 'Los Angeles Times' review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.

Bruce Vilanch

For Review Quotes #1066111
#88. Feedback is important to people. We all want to know how well we're doing. That's why it is essential for an effective performance review system to provide ongoing feedback.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

For Review Quotes #1087674
#89. Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Gordon Ramsay

For Review Quotes #1087680
#90. Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

Phil Cornwell

For Review Quotes #1093808
#91. I had come looking for a parade, for a military review of champions marching in ranks. Instead I was left with a brawl of ancestors, a herd of dissenters, sometimes marching together but just as often marching away from each other.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

For Review Quotes #1107339
#92. Furthermore, even these limited accomplishments should be obtained, Barbauld cautioned, "in a quiet and unobserved manner" for the display of knowledge by a woman is "punished with disgrace."6 Besides, the Monthly Review complained in a 1763 review, "intense thought spoils a lady's features."7

Karen Swallow Prior

For Review Quotes #1140370
#93. I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.

Vladimir Nabokov

For Review Quotes #1164941
#94. evaluate if we've built what we envisioned at the quality level we hoped for and in the timeframe we planned. Do this in a team product review and reflection.

Jeff Patton

For Review Quotes #1164952
#95. Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

Ron Kind

For Review Quotes #1196889
#96. It never stops me from saying what I want to say about Ethiopia, the fact that a tour company is paid for me to go there. Book reviewers don't pay for the books they review.

John Gimlette

For Review Quotes #1200268
#97. I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

Barry Sonnenfeld

For Review Quotes #1201647
#98. It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

Bob Woodward

For Review Quotes #1223268
#99. Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

John Updike

For Review Quotes #1234247
#100. It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

Judith Crist

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