Quotes About Commentary

I got into sports broadcasting because I loved sports, not because I loved TV.

Yeah, I definitely like broadcasting. And I'm looking forward to getting into it when my career is done.

I don't think I would be very good on TV broadcasting games.

I started broadcasting in 1977 in radio and 1979 on TV.

We really suffer from a hot-take disease, wanting to be the first one who has the hottest take.

It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

I don't know if anyone's ever done that, where they do a big college game and then do a game in the NFL. It would have to be a Monday game, obviously. If it were a Sunday game I wouldn't be able to do college and pro. Ideally, in a perfect world, I would love the challenge of trying to do both.

Far and away, the question I'm asked most often is, 'What's your favorite sporting event to call?' I can't say I've ever answered the question well, simply because the three biggest events I broadcast for CBS Sports - the Super Bowl, the NCAA Men's Final Four and the Masters - each are incomparable.

Someone pointed out that Dick Enberg and Curt Gowdy are the only two ever to call a Super Bowl and a Final Four. So I'll be the third. I get a kick out of putting my name in the same sentence as those other two giants.

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary.

The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.

Second is the rise of higher criticism

It's true that what can be done will be done. It's inevitable, a law of nature, and neither right nor wrong has much to do with it. The moral argument in the end is just a commentary. It doesn't control the process, or even influence it much.

Too bad we don't have a flashlight." "Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.

His cassock is done in black marble and his face and hands in white, lending the statue a creepily realistic look. The Jesuit art historian C. J. McNaspy, writing about the otherwise magnificent church, commented, "The statue of St. Stanislaus, upstairs in the sanctuary, however, I find deplorable. One would have thought that the young saint suffered enough in life.

Great books, if long enough and full of topical description and contemporary comment, were now coming into even wider public favor. The lengthier and fuller of comment, the better.

You never really get caught up in things, do you, Ann?" "No," said Ann thoughtfully, "I don't think I do. I think I'm one of those people who is a born observer. More like a commentator on the radio.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

The idea behind Mediaite was always to focus on the punditry, focus on the personalities behind the political media.

Everything we do is art, philosophy, mysticism, cultural commentary.

One of the most overused phrases in political commentary is that someone is running a 'negative' campaign filled with 'attack' ads.

When a man comments on your physical appearance, the effect is often just to distract from your professional ability.

I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.