Quotes by Critics

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach. Roger Ebert

Wealth Our Out Economic Reach Exist Up Moved Chain

One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock. Roger Ebert

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin. Roger Ebert

Privacy Age Fall Responsibilities Would Would-Be Advanced Sin Unthinkable Terrible Terrible Thing Shoulders Your Pope Thing Seclusion

Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them. Roger Ebert

Me Age Too Late Three Too Late Station TV Would TV Set Pretty Bought Missed Town Sure Came Were Up Stooges Loved Either Them Whole Growing Growing Up Hometown Right Thing Set

Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed. Roger Ebert

You Winter Goals Listening About Mentioned Observed Highlights Know Frequently How How Much Were Scoring Reporting Tiny Hockey Bar Much Mike Team Radio Here Night Kept

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think? Roger Ebert

You Better Think Baby Plot Must Point Provide Than Reason

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring. Roger Ebert

Long Critics Boring Praise Movie Movies

Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to inflame political passions and energize the John McCain campaign with star quality. Roger Ebert

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do. Roger Ebert

People Think Way Correct Never Simply Politically Politically Correct Themselves Choosing

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there. Roger Ebert

Needs Everyone Locked Category Slammed

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. Roland Barthes

Man Block Itself Offers Creates Skyscraper Street

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! Roland Barthes

Great Ending Great Deal Trouble Politician Would Would-Be Entire He Takes Clearly Policy Deal His Short Stopped Being Sentence Imagine

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. Roland Barthes

Lie Confession Myth Neither Nor

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. Roland Barthes

Photograph See Invisible Always

The New is not a fashion, it is a value. Roland Barthes

Fashion Value New

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. Roland Barthes

Blame Guilt Power Recipient Call Discourse Any Hence

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. Roland Barthes

Knowledge World Through Mythology Blissfully Reduced Regained Einstein Formula Image

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. Roland Barthes

Love Love Is Try Language Too Much Too Both Write Excessive Hysteria Impoverished Where Region Little Confront Much

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. Russell Lynes

Journalist Every Excellent Him Place Which Novel

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. Russell Lynes

Intelligence Cripple Intellectual Substitute Cynicism

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. Russell Lynes

Fanfare Century

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars. Russell Lynes

You Dark Stars Enough See Gets