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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. -- Randall Jarrell
Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind. -- David Allen
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. -- Les Brown
Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now? -- Alan Lakein
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] -- John F. Kennedy
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing. -- Ford Frick
Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. -- Anna Quindlen
Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review. -- Jeff Sessions
My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online. -- Carrie Coon
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. â??Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. -- Alan Loy McGinnis
My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.' -- Chris Hayes
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review. -- William Kennedy
My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them. -- Sophia Amoruso
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
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
[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
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
[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married. -- Nat Hentoff
I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale. -- Andy Daly
Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada). -- Erin Mouré
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
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
As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor. -- Hershel Shanks
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
Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile asâ?¦the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires. -- Woody Allen
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
In a way I feel I have been vindicated because I hadn't done anything wrong. The Review Committee gave me a patient hearing and I put my point of view across to them. -- Sourav Ganguly
Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) -- John Irving
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change. -- Gary Hamel
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
Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published. -- Freeman Dyson
My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm [Kushner, Rachel, Diary, London Review of Books, January 14, 2015]. -- Rachel Kushner
This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. -- Rick Moody
Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States. -- Terry Southern
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As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started 'The Stanford Review,' which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that. -- Peter Thiel
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review. -- Mara Liasson
Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really had the most distinctive writing style, even more than mine, than I've ever seen in this business. -- Nat Hentoff
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.' -- Mara Liasson
The four stages of acceptance:1. This is worthless nonsense.2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.3. This is true, but quite unimportant.4. I always said so."(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464) -- J.B.S. Haldane
The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil. -- Emily Dickinson
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.' -- Paul Engle
Mentally imagine you are buying the business or applying for the job that will earn your fortune. Review each step you'd take, the obstacles you might meet, the difficulties you would meet. Continue imagining each step until you mentally reach your wealth goal. -- Tyler Gregory Hicks
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
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
From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. -- Joseph Bruchac
The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling. -- James Purdy
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
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person. -- Daniel Goleman
All our words and acts are passing in review before God. -- Ellen G. White
Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath. -- Michael Chabon
I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested. -- Melanie Lynskey
The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents. -- Ellen Ochoa
It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. -- Kenneth Koch
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. -- Plato
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. -- Danielle Steel
In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur. -- Jon Porter
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
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. -- Isaac Asimov
If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review. -- Robin Hayes
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
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
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
You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care. -- Arundhati Roy
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason. -- Barry Hannah
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences. -- George Will
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
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
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
Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line. -- Kathryn Minshew
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence. -- Al Gore
Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
It's my policy not to review funerals. -- A.M. Homes
To read is human, to review is divine. -- Peter James
To review ones store is to mow twice. -- George Herbert
One cannot review a bad book without showing off. -- W. H. Auden
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise. -- Joyce Carol Oates
What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers -- Jack Welch
The best kind of performance review is no performance review -- Aubrey Daniels
It's much easier to say negative things in a review. -- Mitchell Hurwitz
Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review. -- Taylor Swift
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror. -- Colin Powell
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review. -- Jim Harrison
A great review is great. A bad review is the worst. -- Don Winslow
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so. -- Oscar Wilde
If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride. -- Anish Kapoor
I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review. -- Wynton Marsalis
it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones. -- Warren Buffett
Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show] -- Yogi Berra
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. -- Dustin Hoffman
Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers. -- Lamar S. Smith
I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews. -- Mark Ruffalo
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review. -- Bruce Schneier
Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere. -- Edmar Mednis
On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data. -- Jeremy Stoppelman
I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women. -- Kate Zambreno
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. -- Iris Murdoch
Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers. -- Parul Sehgal
I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. -- Curtis Hanson
Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased. -- Rachel Gibson
How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend. -- George Eliot
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A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland. -- Betty Hill
A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages. -- John Yoo
The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water. -- Malcolm Turnbull
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book. -- Edward Abbey
How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer! -- Kathryn Harrison
I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World. -- Will Friedle
We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president. -- Chris Matthews
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch. -- Kingsley Amis

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