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Quotes About Commentary

I really liked the 'Pitch Black' DVD, and I liked the commentary.
~ Ron Howard
The 'Wall Street Journal' is quite irate that I rank them with industry front groups and cranks denying climate change. But they have a record whenever industrial pollutants are involved. Look at the 'Journal''s commentary on acid rain, on the ozone layer, and on climate change.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
The first time I go to the TV for commentary I no like it because I have a fight coming up and I didn't wanna do that, but now I love this.
~ Fabricio Werdum
Dick Vitale always used to say to me, 'Remember, this is an entertainment medium.' People are not tuning in to a game to know how smart you are about basketball; they wanna enjoy it. And it took Dick years of saying that for me to settle in and say, 'It's also okay for me to have a little fun on the air.'
~ Doris Burke
I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
~ Walter Cronkite
I guess when I got to MSNBC in 2009, I brought Bernie Sanders to cable probably more than anybody else.
~ Ed Schultz
I am principally an artist. I became a political cartoonist.
~ Robert Graysmith
What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.
~ Ernie Johnson Jr.
Honestly, I've always thought that Charles Barkley is the best guy on TV because he will really tell you what he thinks. But it's all well thought out.
~ Neal Brennan
To which I'd like to append a variation on Lewis's Law ("all comments on feminism justify feminism"): the plethora of men attacking women and anyone who stands up for women in order to prove that women are not under attack and feminism has no basis in reality are apparently unaware that they're handily proving the opposite. 
~ Rebecca Solnit
The fact is that for fourteen centuries, the science of Quranic commentary has been the exclusive domain of Muslim men. And
~ Reza Aslan
CNN journalist Tucker Carlson?
~ Richard Dawkins
I write music, it's performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn't need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
~ Jimmy Durante
I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.
~ Janeane Garofalo
No actions, no results. Everything else is a commentary.
~ Utpal Vaishnav
I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.
~ Will Rogers
What is said of some commentators, 'The places on which they treat were plain till they expounded them,' may be said of some preachers, their text was clear till their obscure dis course upon it darkened it.
~ William Gurnall
Depend upon it, it is God's Word, not our comment upon God's Word, that saves souls.
~ Robert Murray M'Cheyne
God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
~ Rob Bell
The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
~ Richie Benaud
People's position on immigration, once they get "sophisticated," and they rise to the higher levels of commentary or government, it's usually determined solely by economics. And not by anything else.
~ Mark Helprin
Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
~ Matt Groening
I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game.
~ Curt Gowdy