Quotes About Commentary

#1. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#3. It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.

David Laskin

#4. Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

Tabitha Soren

#5. The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)

Michael Ben Zehabe

#6. Goodreads sports some of the social awkwardness of middle school. If you are looking for a friend, I promise no matter your background or book preferences I will be your friend.

Red Phoenix

#7. If the sale of flesh could be made as easily as the sale of spiritual exemption, the prescience of a dedicated businessman might be well preserved.

Michelle Franklin

#8. I was used to watching this on a comfy couch with bowls of popcorn and family commentary.

Kiera Cass

#9. The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.

Nick Clegg

#10. I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysenery.

Woody Allen

#11. I am the illegal alien of commentary. I will do the jokes that no one else will do.

Ann Coulter

#12. Please restrain your commentary on the furniture.

Holly Black

#13. What we witness at the fea is not just a celebration of the multiplicity of modernities but also, and more importantly, a critical commentary on local structures of inequality that take for granted that both tradition and modernity are the prerogatives of the high ranking and wealthy.

Niko Besnier

#14. My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

Ori Gersht

#15. Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down.

Mark Helprin

#16. I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

Lance Ito

#17. "The Moderately Talented ... " is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.

Mark Kozelek

#18. I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

Jay Roach

#19. No actions, no results. Everything else is a commentary.

Utpal Vaishnav

#20. No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Matt Groening

#22. since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present.

Erich Fromm

#23. It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

Ted Kulongoski

#24. Social proof is a flame to the human mind moth, and it leaves a fire trail of destruction across the path of enough.

Will Jelbert

#25. Hours is an understatement. I honestly don't know how the director and editor decide each week what actually makes it on the air. There's of course director and cast commentary on each episode on the DVD. We had a blast recording that.

Joel McHale

#26. To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

Michael Owen

#27. I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

Barbara Kingsolver

#28. The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia.

RuPaul

#29. He remembers noticing his dad's shadow was shorter than the others, and he had a visceral sense his father was weaker than the rest, and that he was more dangerous as a weak person with a lot of power than a powerful person with a lot of power.

Jardine Libaire

#30. Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

#31. The world's evaluations of an individual's social worth, like the slits in my eyeballs, change with time and circumstance. In point of fact my pupil-slits vary but modestly between broad and narrow, but mankind's judgements turn somersaults and cartwheels for no conceivable reason.

Soseki Natsume

#32. As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.

Nicola Monaghan

#33. My favorite Congressional incongruity: ... Red State legislators galumphing from meeting to meeting in full pancake makeup. Estee Lauder may well make more money on Capitol Hill than in Beverly Hills.

Frank Bruni

#34. I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

Zack Snyder

#35. Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

David Sloan Wilson

#36. It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Oscar Robertson

#37. I was hired by the 'Tom Joyner Morning Show' to do commentary that makes people think. I want my audience to feel like they are learning and not being pandered to.

Don Lemon

#38. If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks.

Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

#39. ... does not need Facebook, Twitter and Stumble Upon. She is a whole social media network all by herself.

Pandora Poikilos

#40. The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Alan Lomax

#41. The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

Michael Ben Zehabe

#42. So what? I'm out here doing commentary with Malaria.

CM Punk

#43. - Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary.

Paulo Coelho

#44. She was handed more personality than other mortals, and chemically fertilized in a glasshouse - now her bionic strength allows her to teleport platters of watercress sandwiches from the kitchen to the library, where she's beating her friends at backgammon.

Jardine Libaire

#45. The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#46. Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

Anthony Bourdain

#47. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

Ray Bradbury

#48. I'm not interested in the director's commentary stuff. I think that stuff is really boring. And, if the director explains too much, it takes a certain mystery away from the interpretation that is very important for the audience to have. The audience should have their own interpretation.

Joseph M. Kahn

#49. Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were bidding us reflect.

Victor Hugo

#50. If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.

Roger Stone

#51. the little governor in most mature adults' brains that told them the difference between polite commentary and insult was completely missing from Fletcher.

Melanie Schuster

#52. Your children are either the center of your life or they're not, and the rest is commentary

Calvin Trillin

#53. I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.

Joe Rogan

#54. The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Larry Niven

#55. Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Aldous Huxley

#56. A mother was thinking of how to keep her naughty child in line she tried using the boogey man it didn't work ... she thought and thought then said "the Politician is going to get you" and he was never naughty again

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#57. Todd, this is almost like your commentary! Dizzying!

Josh Mathews

#58. Conducted by the Draft Committee. The present text makes clear exactly what the Council affirmed and denied. Obviously, those who signed the articles do not necessarily concur in every interpretation advocated by the commentary. Not even the members of the Draft Committee

R.C. Sproul

#59. Apocalyptic hysteria is much more effective at getting people to open their wallets than reasonable commentary.

Alex Pareene

#60. A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

Alan M. Dershowitz

#61. If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out.
And the journey starts NOW.

Jasper Fforde

#62. I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us would go see the worst movie that came out each weekend. It'd be noon in Burbank. It was just a running commentary. All executives - we would each talk through the movie and make jokes.

Jason Reitman

#63. The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

Piero Scaruffi

#64. Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious.

Neil Gaiman

#65. The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

Rachel Maddow

#66. I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking.

Jerry Lawler

#67. There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

William Gibson

#68. I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.

Melanie Griffith

#69. I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

John Mayall

#70. Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

Raegan Butcher

#71. Our modern history begins in 1788 with the dumping of the human detritus of Britain ... Yet repositioned in the sunlight , they flourished. ...This was colonial Australia's great gift to the world: practical proof that, when it comes to human society, the soil is more important than the seed.

Richard Glover

#72. Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example

Carroll Bryant

#73. Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq - that's got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.

Russell Brand

#74. Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Shel Silverstein

#75. I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

Barbara Kruger

#76. I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.

John Legend

#77. I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.

Sid Waddell

#78. he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot.

Duncan Wu

#79. If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint.

Ronald Knox

#80. Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body. As though doing no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible mold.

Jo Nesbo

#81. It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal.

James R. Leininger

#82. No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.

Kurt Vonnegut

#83. I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

Elliot Cowan

#84. At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

Allen Tate

#85. God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

Rob Bell

#86. Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.

Ian McKellen

#87. A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

Aaron Sorkin

#88. Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

Steven Landsburg

#89. he would learn - truth is brief (afterward, it is all commentary). So

Umberto Eco

#90. For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity - or even western creativity - but this assumption was seriously in error.

Anthony Braxton

#91. Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.

Antonya Nelson

#92. It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.

Michael Grant

#93. You are what you read.

Nancy Petralia

#94. I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.

Kanye West

#95. And likewise I was beginning to see my own fears and desires manifested outside myself, was beginning to see in other people's lives a commentary on my own.

Rachel Cusk

#96. I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

Carlos Fuentes

#97. Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of.

Jordan Stratford

#98. In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

Albert Camus

#99. Nothing like cleaning the whole house while my siblings sing "O Canada" - #oldestchildsyndrome.

Michelle N. Onuorah

#100. Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.

Laura Schlessinger