Quotes About Commentary

One of the more powerful commentaries on America was the arch question Samuel Johnson posed in 1777: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"4 It is a question that still hangs in the air more than two centuries later.

Thomas Frank

Sometimes you look at the critics and say, 'Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.'

One thing that I really love about making records is that you can flow through fiction and non-fiction but, ultimately, everything's a commentary on real life in some way.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

As inquiry, the Warren Commission's work resembles a dead whale decomposing on a beach. Yet, one does not have to view the work in this fashion. For two generations of Americans, the Warren Commission's twenty-six volumes of Hearings and Exhibits have become a species of Talmudic text begging for commentary and further elucidation. To

Uchiyama R?shi subtitled his interpretive translation and commentary of this important work Finsei Ry?ri no Hon, or How to Cook Your Life. The word ry?ri, the meaning of which to be sure includes the cooking and preparation of food, also has broader connotations. Ry?ri may also be used in the sense of conducting or handling one's affairs. The implication of this title is that the author tells us how we should go about conducting our lives and treating everything

His eyes are looking far away. He is part of the scene but detached from it, an observer and commentator who is immersed but marginalized. He is, like Leonardo, of this world but apart from it.

Southern California's most convivial street, which, in a sad commentary on the state of American public space, sits beyond the fare gate at the entrance to Disneyland.

At that exact moment, Nancy Grace, a CNN legal commentator who combines the nuance of a sledgehammer with the social graces of a harpy..

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

I saw this on TV," June Sibley said. "He'll go in there and get the guy to let the girl go and stay in himself. Oh, my God, he's so brave." "Oh, my ass. He's so stupid," Del Franklin said.

It's amazing how quickly the mind switches from figuring out a situation to commenting on it.

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.

To one outraged commentator, the mad "scramble of 15,000 people" to the site of such "appalling and atrocious" crimes was a sad commentary on the moral state of supposedly civilized man—"galling, incontrovertible proof that the race is still but a little removed from a stage of actual savagery."[

I think women are excellent social critics.

We're building a technology that takes the magic of Kodak, mixes moving images and sound, and adds a space for commentary and an opportunity to spread that creativity everywhere. But we're building the law to close down that technology. (p. 47)

Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography in general. What has emerged in our time as a dominant form of life writing can trace its lineage back to this extended footnote.

I have been subjected to what can only be described as an unrelenting onslaught of comments and commentary and trolling online.

Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their lives.

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

Every comic will tell you that a lot of crowds play differently to different social commentary. Some people are really uptight about stuff like that. Some people just enjoy the fact that it's your experience and they want to hear you mock and joke about your life.

Go to the Sydney Institute Media Watch Dog website to marvel at his [Gerard Henderson's] work.

All the films I've done have had a secret commentary on stereotypical mentalities.