Top 100 Quotes About Commentary
#1. No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.
Billy Graham
#2. Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.
Douglas Booth
#3. A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.
Clive James
#4. If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life ... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
P. J. O'Rourke
#5. In my mortal life, I saw mainly those texts that the church sanctioned
the gospels and the Orthodox commentary on them, for example. These works were of no use to me, in the end.
Elizabeth Kostova
#6. The untrained mind keeps up a running commentary, labelling everything, judging everything. Best to ignore that commentary. Don't argue or resist, just ignore. Deprived of attention and interest, this voice gets quieter and quieter and eventually just shuts up.
Plato
#7. A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
#8. It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often fail to behave with the rationality expected of them.
Kaushik Basu
#9. Man's life as commentary to abstruse [940] Unfinished poem. Note for further use. Dressing
Vladimir Nabokov
#10. Their conversation was a flow of erudite commentary, moist with the syrup of a superior education. She
Gail Carriger
#11. I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
Murray Walker
#12. Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions." Ben shot Hi a stern look. "No running commentary." "Your loss," Hi said. "To the pimp ride!
Kathy Reichs
#13. Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.
Harold Holzer
#14. I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.
Samantha Stosur
#15. The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.
Jay Roach
#16. Dreams are chequered commentary made in sleep
Along the deeps of our desires,
moving like riddles through a magic glade
Lightly they touch the leap of hidden fires.
John Bradburn
#17. Ford has one last piece of advice for anyone who's reading his or her first commentary for NPR: "Bring a camera so you can take pictures of the studio, since God knows this stuff doesn't happen to you every day." Commentary
Jonathan Kern
#18. When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.
Dennis Ritchie
#19. The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Gary North
#20. Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.
Richard Rohr
#21. When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.
Max Walker
#22. A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.
Sherley Anne Williams
#23. Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.
R.C. Sproul
#24. I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone to tell them their troubles.
Jon Winokur
#25. I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.
Joan Fontcuberta
#26. The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.
Susan Stewart
#27. Learning as we go ... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but uncontrolled experiment with powerful hormones (HRT). That's quite a commentary on "scientific medicine".
Ralph W. Moss
#28. 'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.
George R R Martin
#29. Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
Rachel Cusk
#30. Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.
Walter Koenig
#31. At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.
Hermann Hesse
#32. I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.
Alan Ball
#33. The present is intelligible only as a commentary upon and response to the past in which the past, if necessary and if possible, is corrected and transcended,
Alasdair MacIntyre
#34. You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.
Amber Benson
#36. The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
Richie Benaud
#37. Everybody wants to have a commentary on my life, like they are actually living it. Cool, comment all you want but I'm the one that's living it.
Katy Perry
#38. Success equals goals; all else is commentary.
Brian Tracy
#39. I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
Damian Marley
#40. A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine ... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
Thomas Brooks
#41. 'Twisted' is similar to 'Pretty Little Liars' in that it's about trying to find out who did it, but it's more about the human relationships between characters and the strain that things can put on them. It's also a little bit of a social commentary piece, because it covers very timely issues.
Avan Jogia
#42. Things Could Be Worse And Things Could Be So Much Better - that became the game, my running commentary on the streets of Manhattan, and I played it as well as the other slobs just trying to get by.
Joshua Ferris
#43. All the films I've done have had a secret commentary on stereotypical mentalities.
John Boyega
#44. What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.
Sydney Schanberg
#45. The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#46. What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
Wayne Dyer
#47. We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.
Wadah Khanfar
#48. Her look dared me to make some kind of chivalrous commentary. I didn't, and she didn't break my nose, by way of fair exchange.
Jim Butcher
#49. I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.
Tina Brown
#50. Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
Susan Sontag
#51. When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.
Nancy Pearcey
#52. I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thinness of old age.
Charles Finch
#53. Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and 'think pieces' about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can.
Roxane Gay
#54. I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
Joni Mitchell
#55. That which is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole Law. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn.
Rabbi Hillel
#56. Science is ... a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective ... in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other.
Francis Collins
#57. You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there's definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.
Guillermo Del Toro
#58. All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary
Isaac Asimov
#59. Loki was hurling fire runes and holding a running commentary on her battle, to which no one but him was listening to.
'And Thor gets in behind Frey and - WHAM! BOOM! That's got to hurt. And Loki SCORES! This boy's on FIRE!
Joanne Harris
#60. Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel.
Manohla Dargis
#61. The words come out of Helen Justineau in a flat monotone. Parks thinks of Gallagher's written report, with its proceeding tos and its thereupons. But Justineau's bowed head and the tightness of her grip on the parapet wall add their own commentary. "I
M.R. Carey
#62. A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.
Adam McKay
#63. Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.
Larry Herzberg
#64. It seems like everyone I know has very strong feelings about which boy is the best fit for Katniss, but also because the books themselves contain a commentary on the way audiences latch onto romance, even (and maybe especially) when lives are at
stake.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#65. Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts - meant to be broken.
John Harvey
#66. They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better the secret entrusted to them at the outset; their creative effort goes into an unending exegesis, a commentary on that one couplet of poetry assigned to them.
Bruno Schulz
#67. Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we're involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.
Caterina Scorsone
#68. They would do better to say: "Our book," "Our commentary," "Our history," etc., because there is in them usually more of other people's than their own.
Blaise Pascal
#69. Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.
Rick Riordan
#70. I stay off the Internet, because I'm very sensitive to commentary. There could be 10 comments of 'Fabulous job!' and one 'She's horrible!' and it completely throws me.
Melissa Rosenberg
#71. I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.
J. C. Watts
#72. I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
P. J. O'Rourke
#73. PREPARE TO FIRE ALL CANNONS," Bones says - his voice warping so that it has a strange, hard-angle accent to it. "COMMENTARY: I SAY WE BLAST THE MEATBAG AND SAVE YOU THE TROUBLE, MASTER.
Chuck Wendig
#74. Jill had three basic statements about life,
1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.
2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
3. No one ever said that life was fair.
Nicholas Sparks
#75. You don't need the 'voice of God' commentary. Instead, by juxtaposing contradictory or confirmatory witnesses and archive material, your point of view becomes obvious.
Marcel Ophuls
#76. I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.
Elayne Boosler
#77. We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?
Dana Carvey
#78. Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
Camille Paglia
#79. Convinced is the biblical doctrine on the great subject of the inspiration of Scripture. In making this confession and presenting this commentary, we hope to dispel
R.C. Sproul
#80. Reflections on Careers in Quantitative Finance
Carnegie Mellon's Steve Shreve is out with an interesting post on careers in quantitative finance, with his commentary on the changing landscape in quantitative research and the implications for financial education.
Paul Ellis
#81. Essentially, love is the Donnie Darko of feelings: Anyone who brags, "I, like, totally get it man," is either full of crap or really, really high (or they watched the commentary on the DVD).
Andrea Lavinthal
#82. The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.
Thomas Jefferson
#83. Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain.
Peter Brooks
#84. Will you stop meddling in my love life?" I growled.
"I'm not meddling. I'm offering commentary.
Ilona Andrews
#85. After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.
Yasmina Reza
#86. I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.
Catherine Hardwicke
#87. If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.
Jodi Picoult
#88. I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part and parcel. I think the greatest social activists are comedians.
Alanis Morissette
#90. History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
Alan Bennett
#91. You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.
David Fincher
#92. It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.
Jodie Foster
#93. There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.
Alistair Cooke
#94. The Gita is a commentary on the Upanishads. The Upanishads are the Bible of India.
Swami Vivekananda
#95. History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#96. The commentary came from millions of idiots on the Internet.
Neal Stephenson
#97. I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
John Shirley
#98. The running commentary, the loving support, the jokes and the observations and the random thoughts that are made a little less random when they're shared. The desire to be heard is as deeply seeded as the desire to be loved.
David Levithan
#99. Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa
#100. There's a behind-the-scenes show that Oprah is doing that follows the final season of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' I find behind-the-scenes stuff fascinating. Like, whenever I watch a DVD, I always watch the special features and listen to the commentary first, before I even watch the movie.
Brendan Robinson
