I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.

- Ann Veneman

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

- Alan Jay Lerner

I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.

- Alice Lowe

It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism.

- Armin van Buuren

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

- Anne Stevenson

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

- Anne Stevenson

Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

- Andrew Stanton

Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.

- Andrea Seigel

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

- Alex Kapranos

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

- Antonio Villaraigosa

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

- Ai Weiwei

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

- Allen Tate

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.

- Armando Iannucci

I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don't get them, and they're going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism - and not necessarily blindly follow the audience's requests and advice.

- Adrian Tomine

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

- A. E. Housman

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

- Andrea Bocelli

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

- Albert Ellis

I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won't raise your self-esteem, it won't create profound connection, it's not going to heal your childhood traumas, it's only going to amplify them. You're going to be subject to a lot of criticism and praise, both of which are violent in their own ways.

- Alanis Morissette

I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I've been around long enough to have ups and downs. So you get over it.

- Alan Greenspan