Quotes About Commentary

The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against every possible rival.

The screenplay, obliged to work in its own right, is both an argument with the source material and a commentary on it.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

Beautiful face woman likes dirty minds comment on her body figure only from the man who has a big amount figure in his bank account.

In politics, I claim that progressives, conservatives, and libertarians are like tribes speaking different languages. The language that resonates with one tribe does not connect with the others. As a result, political discussions do not lead to agreement. Instead, most political commentary serves to increase polarization. The points that people make do not open the minds of people on the other side. They serve to close the minds of the people on one's own side.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, thyroid problem?

I try to remain under radar as much as I can. In our line of work, whatever we do makes news, and with social media, people comment on everything. When it comes to love, the day I get married, I will tell the world about my wife.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

I am not saying Gary Neville is a nobody. He has accomplished a lot in his life, he is a legend. But as a coach? Let him stay on the TV.

A good comedian can make serious political points while also having a giggle.

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.

With four women commentators, the IPL have shown they have faith in women commentators to do a good job.

The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don't like - that's okay. We're all wired differently. I think about that a lot. I can't explain it. That's just what runs through my blood. It's just the way I look at the world.

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.

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.

I think women are excellent social critics.

We're one of the only bands that get censored for theological commentary.

For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

Once more the legend flourished that the number of years lived constitutes some kind of temperamental bond, so that people of the same age are many minds with but a single thought, bearing one to another a close resemblance. The young were commented on as if they were some new and just discovered species of animal life, with special qualities and habits which repaid investigation.

Literature is a symptom of the state of a society

I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.

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Having a great narrator is like having a great friend whose company you love, whose mind you love to pick, whose running commentary totally holds your attention, who makes you laugh out loud, whose lines you always want to steal. When you have a friend like this, she can say, Hey, I've got to drive up to the dump in Petaluma--wanna come along? and you honestly can't think of anything in the world you'd rather do.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.