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Quotes About Comment

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
~ Damien Fahey
It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.
~ Michael Hersch
Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into the darkness.
~ Dave Eggers
Someone has farted; no one knows just who, but this isn't like a normal adult place where everybody coolly pretends a fart didn't happen; here everybody has to make their little comment.
~ David Foster Wallace
Just as I am writing at the same as I am being read. Only I do not start with the ending that would justify the beginning as death appears to comment on life because I must record the preceeding events.
~ Clarice Lispector
And that is how Amelia Bedelia's Rule #2 was born: Include the word "healthy" in your request or comment, and grown-ups will automatically agree.
~ Unknown
Camille, a few feet away, looked like a gypsy who had mislaid his violin and had been searching for it in a hedgerow; he frustrated daily the best efforts of an expensive tailor, wearing his clothes as a subtle comment on the collapsing social order.
~ Hilary Mantel
Why did people feel the need to comment on the rain, when they had absolutely nothing of value to add to the conversation?
~ Liane Moriarty
I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.
~ Brian Greene
It's much easier for the vegan to remain at home and do their own Christmas dinner. That way, you can enjoy your food without someone making some hilarious comment about your stuffed pepper.
~ Romesh Ranganathan
I said nothing. After all, you really should understand a remark before you respond to it, and I didn't. Clearly Jackie was in a philosophical mood—but whether the evening would turn toward Aristotle or existentialism, I couldn't tell from her comment on Benny's Normalness. And as the best philosophers will tell you, the rest is silence anyway, so I kept quiet.
~ Jeff Lindsay
And so, Paris. Dexter trudges meekly along in the wake of the Good Ship Rita, staring and nodding where these things are required and occasionally offering a sharp and witty comment, like, "Wow," and "Uh-huh," as Rita trammels through the pent-up lust for Paris that has surged in her all these many years and now, at last, has found consummation.
~ Jeff Lindsay
An unguarded comment often proves every bit as valuable as a response to a direct question.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
~ Jeffrey Archer
At restaurants and bars, they sometimes slip Bengali phrases into their conversation in order to comment with impunity on another diner's unfortunate hair or shoes.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?
~ Lauren Greenfield
Straight-news pieces are supposed to be just that: straight news. They are not supposed to be biased, and a longtime practice for ensuring this is to ask all subjects of a story for their comment.
~ Kat Timpf
So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.
~ Amanda Bynes
A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
~ Paul Gauguin
It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.
~ David Levithan
'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.
~ Colin Hanks
Either you have two different colored eyes," he'd commented, "or I'm drunker than I thought." "Oh, you're as drunk as a fiddler," the man assured him pleasantly. "But yes, they're two different colors: I have heterochromia." "Is it catching?" West had asked. The stranger had grinned. "No, it was from a sock in the eye when I was twelve.
~ Lisa Kleypas
You'll have to be careful, then," he said softly, smiling. "It would be a shame for some intelligent comment to slip out at the wrong moment.
~ Lisa Kleypas