Quotes About Commentary

I enjoy watching Chris Matthews a lot. He reminds me of a throwback to the older school kind of pundits like Tim Russert.

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal. They deserve their defeats.

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

When I started as a color man in the booth with CBS, I would make footballs out of a roll of toilet paper.

The competition to get above the rest and be the lead commentator, or whatever you want to call it, is much fiercer than it was when I was starting out. By the same token, there were not as many jobs going back then, so to get one was an achievement in itself.

I just kept throwing out two or three major ideas, and then that was pretty much right when Tom Phillips came to me asking about the commentary idea and I ended up jumping into that, went down a rabbit hole I never expected.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

The Sermon on the Mount is the moral portrait of Jesus' own people. Because this portrait doesn't square with the church, this Sermon turns from instruction to indictment. To those ends—both instruction and indictment—this commentary has been written with the simple goal that God will use this book to lead us to become in real life the portrait Jesus sketched in the Sermon.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

Cómo no va a gustarle a alguien un hombre que no sólo se fija en los colores, sino que además los comenta.

it is an allegory of our times.

I found a new breed of people, 'Facebook Man' - Comments on anything, but don't even have a single own Status post!!!

un vaticinio tiene más autoridad que un comentario.

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

commentary focused on the unfairness of bailing out Wall Street (a sentiment with which I agreed) rather than on what would have happened had we not acted.

INTRODUCTION The very acute and lively Spanish critic who signs himself Clarin, and is known personally as Don Leopoldo Alas, says the present Spanish novel has no yesterday, but only a day-before-yesterday.

The following day, Sylviane Agacinski commented on this declaration in her journal, which was published a few months later: I read in Libération that Jacques Derrida did not vote in the first round as he was 'in a bad mood with all the candidates'. So it's a question of mood, yet again!

We've lost a lot of regard for straight forward news stories, and that has then been supplemented by comment, not even analysis, which has created a lot of celebrity journalists.

There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.

Besides my work doing NFL analysis and commentary for ESPN, I'm also involved in trying to get new products launched, and I have relationships with other companies to try to get things off the ground.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that once we make a thing and release it, my turn to talk is done. Ideally, you're saying everything you want to say in the product you're making, and you don't have to add commentary to it afterwards.

As everybody manages to say on TV, 'Yeah, he hits it pretty far for a little guy.' Well thanks.

The horror films that I've made have been satirical in one way or another or political, and I really think that's the purpose of horror. I don't see that happening very often.