Reviewing The Past Quotes

#1. The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Leon Redbone

#2. One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars.

Richard Corliss

#3. There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS.

Timothy Noah

#4. Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

Jill Lepore

#5. The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're decoding

Maureen Corrigan

#6. The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors' rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be the death of science.

Julian Schwinger

#7. I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

Francis Ford Coppola

#8. Clearly in my mind, I have two distinct positions - owner and manager. So I am open to reviewing my performance as a manager as any other person in Sun Pharma.

Dilip Shanghvi

#9. Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don't become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don't remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.

Les Brown

#10. I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Sydney Smith

#11. Trying to explain moral principles to Khe Sahn was like reviewing a standard 1040 tax form with a house cat!

David Sedaris

#12. The practice of "reviewing" ... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

Henry James

#13. I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

Roland Joffe

#14. What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

Michael Dirda

#15. My proudest moment was the number 'Reviewing the Situation.' I suspect that, because I gave my all to the role and because I was working with such a fine team of people, it inhibited my future career.

Ron Moody

#16. Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.

Alexander Theroux

#17. -I'm reviewing it, the stooped man said, and started to plod off.
-You read it?
-No, he said over his shoulder, -but I know the son of a bitch who wrote it.

William Gaddis

#18. In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

Jeff Raikes

#19. I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#20. Verbal clashes seldom come to a satisfying end. They peter out in weak retorts that leave you wishing you'd been as clever in the moment as you are in reviewing the conversation later.

Sue Grafton

#21. The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of
other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity."
Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History
of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99

Roger Lowenstein

#22. I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.

Tony Visconti

#23. Sad to say, multi-tasking is beyond me. I read one book at a time all the way through. If I'm reviewing the book, I have to write the review before I start reading any other book. I especially hate it when the phone rings and interrupts my train of thought.

Michael Dirda

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

Terence Winter

#25. I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

Beth Gutcheon

#26.

[Blog post, March 10, 2014]

K.J. Charles

#27. These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis.

Idries Shah

#28. What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

Fanny Fern

#29. Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my friend. Present results clearly and honestly. If something isn't working - those reviewing results need to know.

John Tukey

#30. There is interest in a crime-based reality show. With my novels, we are now editing the second book in a series about a defense lawyer whose name is Samantha Brinkman. And I am reviewing speaking engagement opportunities.

Marcia Clark

#31. I did my degree in journalism, and I then went on to being a games journalist, reviewing and previewing games and writing about the industry, visiting and interviewing developers.

Rhianna Pratchett

#32. We're very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just this sort of thing happening-a person coming from West Africa, they were healthy at the time they traveled, but got sick here.

William Schaffner

#33. In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.

Thomas Jefferson

#34. The loser, when a game of dice is done,
remains behind reviewing every roll
sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

Dante Alighieri

#35. We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

David Neeleman

#36. Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

Stu Jackson