Quotes About Commentary

Satire today has become a flat 'tyre'.

I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.

I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

the most trenchant commentary was

Il peut sembler extraordinaire, étant donné les circonstances dans lesquelles nous vivions, de penser que nous nous réunissions fréquemment chez moi pour traduire le Pentateuque, plus un commentaire, en roumain. (p. 124)

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

We live in a society where people will watch erotic stuff and then pass comments on it.

I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.

I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.

I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth - the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.

We cannot forget about Rachel Maddow. She is the Peter Pan of MSNBC. But instead of never growing up, she never gets to the point.

It's interesting to me that apparently distasteful comments from the Right against weak targets tend to draw a lot less media fire than apparently distasteful comments from the Left against hard targets. That's one of the threads that runs through the show and that people hopefully pick up on.

Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

Sport in itself has this power. If you are a poet or a singer, people gravitate. I may not be in the same category, but I will make a comparison with Bob Marley. So it isn't just cricket where social commentary plays a huge part.

I clearly have a point of view; I am very passionate about my point of view. I am a commentator.

I'm attracted to things that make a point or have a certain point of view, but it's not a conscious thing that I decide to do every morning. Unconsciously, what I like has a social commentary in it, or it's about race, or it's risky to do. That's what I like doing.

Seriously though, most films worth their salt will have something to say about the world we live in. Even 'Avatar' claimed that!

I'm not just a pundit - I'm a comedian.