Review Quotes

#1. We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of the Columbia accident ... It was a cultural shift in NASA, that you're now required to understand all the risks.

Donald E. Brownlee

#2. When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

Harvey Fierstein

#3. Emergency department physicians spent 44 percent of their time entering data into electronic medical records, clicking up to 4,000 times during a 10-hour shift. - Becker's Health IT & CIO Review magazine, October 11, 2013

Robert Wachter

#4. For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

Brian Tracy

#6. There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto.

Allen Ginsberg

#7. I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

Elton John

#8. The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Salman Rushdie

#9. A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.

Betty Hill

#10. The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.

Robert Anton Wilson

#11. It's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

Warren Buffett

#12. A curious observation is the uniform way that committees review curriculum for each field of study. Too often, authorities have a knee-jerk impulse to declare that 'all curriculum areas will be the same.' In fact, real and significant differences exist between fields of study.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#13. Sunsets require sunshine ["Surveillance: Out of the Shadows," New York Review of Books, June 2, 2015].

David Cole

#14. Every day I review the ways he works, I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

Eugene H. Peterson

#15. This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

Rod Parsley

#16. It's been...interesting."
"Aw." He actually rolled his eyes. "Interesting? That's the review I get? I'm pretty sure the earth moved."
"Well..." My cheeks heated. "You're the farmer. It's your job to notice the earth.

Sarina Bowen

#17. Healing must always seek to give voice to suffering, and the greater the range of words and meanings we have at our disposal, the clearer the voice becomes.
Iona Heath in BMJ 2000;320:125 ( 8 January) Review of the book Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David Morris

Iona Heath

#18. In 1986, I read a remarkable article by Israel Rosenfield in The New York Review of Books in which he discussed the revolutionary work and views of Gerald M. Edelman. Edelman was nothing if not bold. We are at the beginning of

Oliver Sacks

#19. As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

Kevin Bacon

#20. In our swamp of media sensationalism and group-speak, BOSTON REVIEW stands out as a bold voice for reason and argument, one of the very, very few places that offers intelligence, integrity, and variety.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#21. If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

Richard John Neuhaus

#22. I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

Steve Martin

#23. _'You shouldn't say thank you for a good review,' said Harriet. 'That would imply that one had done a favour to the author, whereas one has simply done justice to the book.'_

Dorothy L. Sayers

#24. A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

Robert Breault

#25. Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do.

Frank Shorter

#26. [George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

Abraham Pais

#27. People expect that I'll be just perfect on ice, and that's not the case. I make mistakes, too. When I review my performance, sometimes I feel I did awful. That's the whole part of the process of what people see when I'm performing.

Kim Yuna

#28. When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.

Lee Gutkind

#29. A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

Christopher Hitchens

#30. Some writers refuse to lay their heads peaceably on the pillow of literary history in order to give posterity good dreams.
review in London Review of Books, of the works of Knut Hamsun (26 nov 1998)

James Wood

#31. What do researchers know? What do they not know? What has been researched and what has not been researched? Is the research reliable and trustworthy? Where are the gaps in the knowledge? When you compile all that together, you have yourself a literature review.

Jim Ollhoff

#32. Increase calls for review, check-up,control, and analysis.

Sunday Adelaja

#33. I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

Barbra Streisand

#34. enjoyed it, won't you please take a moment to leave me a review? Thank you.

Abraham Rozenzveig

#35. I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

Dallas Roberts

#36. This is not your mom's fairy tale.'

From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.

Ashen Venema

#37. You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

Blake Lively

#38. I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

John Green

#39. I'm a political analyst. I'm a political wonk. I read everything I can get my hands on as a contributor to the 'Weekly Standard.' Of course I read that. I read the 'National Review' on the right. I read 'Mother Jones' on the left. If I want a good laugh, I'll watch MSNBC or read 'The Nation.'

Michael Ramirez

#40. 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

#41. Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.

Martine McCutcheon

#42. Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.

John Fante

#43. And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.

Patrick Macnee

#44. As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

Lee Roberson

#45. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

W. H. Auden

#46. A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
[Baffled at a Bookcase (London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]

Alan Bennett

#47. What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

Kate Thompson

#48. I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

Oscar Wilde

#49. If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.

Bill Shorten

#50. Emily Zanotti is a Republican political strategist and author. She is a regular contributor to The American Spectator and a featured opinion columnist with The Wall Street Journal. Her work has appeared across the political spectrum, in National Review, The Daily Caller, Slate, and elsewhere.

Joanne Bamberger

#51. 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

#52. You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'

Darin Strauss

#53. I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

Suzanne Finnamore

#54. An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

#55. We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.

Janet Napolitano

#56. 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

#57. The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

John Scott

#58. When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that's tyranny.

Mark Levin

#59. I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.

Janet Fitch

#60. Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.

Brian Cox

#61. Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Plato

#62. I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

Barry Sonnenfeld

#63. 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

#64. Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

Ron Kind

#65. It's over. The franchise is dead. The press killed it. Your magazine f**king killed it. New York Magazine. It's like all the critics got together and said, 'This franchise must die.' Because they all had the exact same review. It's like they didn't see the movie. Got any more gum?

Chris Noth

#66. If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps we don't need a 'fast-track' but a regular track: where the president sends us any proposal he deems worthy, and we review it on its own merits.

Jeff Sessions

#67. 'The Paris Review' was always the pinnacle: it was the place to be published. You were thrilled if you were published in 'The Paris Review,' and George Plimpton himself was practically mythical. He was a legendary figure.

James Salter

#68. An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed.

David Mermin

#69. The kindest thing you can offer an author is a review and a star rating. So appreciated.
THE GOLDEN PEACOCK has had a successful 5-star run on Goodreads and on Amazon. Thank you!" Lauren B. Grossman

Lauren B. Grossman

#70. We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will ... authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.

Arlen Specter

#71. We'll review President Obama's plan [on closing Guantanamo], but since it includes bringing dangerous terrorists to facilities in U.S. communities, he should know that the bipartisan will of Congress has already been expressed against that proposal.

Audie Cornish

#72. The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Robert Bork

#73. When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.

Richard Branson

#74. President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now going to have countries like Cuba, Libya and Uganda sitting in judgment on Arizona's laws? Enough is enough!

Russell Pearce

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. The most effective way to see if you understand a concept is to first review it and they try to explain it in your own words as if you were teaching an imaginary class or a five year old.

Sahil Bora

#78. 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

#79. And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

Peter Carey

#80. When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

Alvaro Uribe

#81. Good Apps are hard to find. If your Appy and you know it, share, review!

David Chiles

#82. 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

#83. There is nothing like a good negative review to sell a book.

Hugh Barbour

#84. I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'

Harmony Korine

#85. Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Ford Frick

#86. Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.

Quentin Tarantino

#87. Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?"
"Hundreds of them."
"Do they hurt?"
"Of course. But you get over it. Critics are just people, lad. They're entitled to their opinions. They're not the enemy."
"Who is the enemy?"
"Censors.

Katie Waitman

#88. In my opinion," said the Superintendent slowly, "an arm-chair review of a case is often far more profitable than any number of enquiries and cross-examinations. You get a better perspective. More wood. Fewer trees.

John Bude

#89. 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

#90. I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came from theater, where, you know, it's impossible to actually review your work, so why would I bother under any other circumstances?

Annie Potts

#91. My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

Sandra Bullock

#92. Unlike what happened after Pearl Harbor, however, the Bush administration would not order a "review of how they could have been so badly surprised" because the results would have shown "a colossal bureaucratic failure, combined with inattention and a lack of political will at the top.

Andrew P. Napolitano

#93. The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

Walter Kaufmann

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them

Rowan Pelling

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. [At Microsoft] I had many years of experience and history and seeing connections. With my direct reports, the job at Microsoft was to delegate and then be able to properly review, but not to micromanage. To have a way of connecting and integrating without getting in the way.

Steve Ballmer

#100. Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.

Anthony Trollope