Commentary's Quotes

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. — Joni Mitchell

Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion. — Gary Larson

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine. — Erich Fromm

I'm interested in social commentary. — Kathryn Bigelow

Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes. - commentary on Castles on the Sand — E.M. Tippetts

In America, there's no idea so patently absurd that it can't catch on. — Bill Maher

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever. — David Fincher

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it. — Aaron Sorkin

It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal. — James R. Leininger

No actions, no results. Everything else is a commentary. — Utpal Vaishnav

Nothing like cleaning the whole house while my siblings sing "O Canada" - #oldestchildsyndrome. — Michelle N. Onuorah

- Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary. — Paulo Coelho

My commentary's hilarious, not witty. — Richelle Mead

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people ... — T. Rafael Cimino

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary. — Barbara Kingsolver

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. — Iris Murdoch

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed. — Eleanor Catton

Her look dared me to make some kind of chivalrous commentary. I didn't, and she didn't break my nose, by way of fair exchange. — Jim Butcher

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written. — Thomas Jefferson

Todd, this is almost like your commentary! Dizzying! — Josh Mathews

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line. — Colin Quinn

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James Baldwin

he would learn - truth is brief (afterward, it is all commentary). So — Umberto Eco

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy. — Alastair Reynolds

Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example — Carroll Bryant

Nick sat alone reading a copy of The Independent . Cocaine socialists were trying their hardest to juice up Britain's economy with super casinos — Saira Viola

When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Everybody wants to have a commentary on my life, like they are actually living it. Cool, comment all you want but I'm the one that's living it. — Katy Perry

Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were bidding us reflect. — Victor Hugo

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it. — R.C. Sproul

That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment. — Erri De Luca

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? — Douglas Adams

Success is goals, everything else is commentary. — Brian Tracy

... does not need Facebook, Twitter and Stumble Upon. She is a whole social media network all by herself. — Pandora Poikilos

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough. — Yasmina Reza

I have little tolerance for noise and stupidity. — Andrew J. Robinson

Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information. — George Eliot

I do cagefight commentary in my spare time. — Joe Rogan

Man's life as commentary to abstruse [940] Unfinished poem. Note for further use. Dressing — Vladimir Nabokov

War is politics for everyone but the warrior. — Tiffany Madison

America isn't a country; it's a marketplace. The more you sell, the more at home you'll feel. — Iimani David

The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary. — Susan Stewart

So what? I'm out here doing commentary with Malaria. — CM Punk

He happy hum of humanity. — Arthur C. Clarke

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game. — Michael Owen

Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary. — David Sloan Wilson

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked. — Jane Austen

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing — Thucydides

Their conversation was a flow of erudite commentary, moist with the syrup of a superior education. She — Gail Carriger

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

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. — John Shirley

That which is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole Law. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn. — Rabbi Hillel

No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary. — Kurt Vonnegut

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? — Anthony Bourdain

She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out — Saira Viola

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

People only need the right amount of bullshit for things to start exploding. Sad, but it's human nature. — Gabbo De La Parra

A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine ... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life. — Thomas Brooks

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me ... only he's an imbecile. — Spider Robinson

God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.
-Commentary on Psalm 119 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Bernie Saunders is like a fly buzzing around a bowl of rotten fruit. Long hail this fly! — Marge Simon

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world. — Susan Sontag

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally. — Damian Marley

If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out.
And the journey starts NOW. — Jasper Fforde

You don't have to comment on every boring thing you do." I said. "This isn't Olympic curling. You're just unpacking a suitcase. — Maria Semple

You are what you read. — Nancy Petralia

Social proof is a flame to the human mind moth, and it leaves a fire trail of destruction across the path of enough. — Will Jelbert

The Expositor's Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1976. Bruce, F. F. The Epistle to the Galatians. Grand — Paul D. Weaver

You do not beg the sun for mercy.
-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary — Frank Herbert

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary. — Shel Silverstein

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ... (Bk2:3) — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done. — Benjamin Cardozo

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. — Jodi Picoult

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things. — Richie Benaud

Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries. — Laura Schlessinger

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. — Elbert Hubbard

I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough. — Melanie Griffith

Success equals goals; all else is commentary.
— Brian Tracy

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction. — Steven Pressfield

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds. — Clive James

If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for. — Sophie Tucker

Do you prefer to be with people who glow with love and compassion or those who burn with anger fueled by religious doctrine or political ideology? — Jeff Rasley

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. — Margaret Atwood

What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study. — Hillel The Elder

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race. — Oscar Robertson

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography. — Joan Fontcuberta

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. — Iveta Cherneva

If the sale of flesh could be made as easily as the sale of spiritual exemption, the prescience of a dedicated businessman might be well preserved. — Michelle Franklin

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

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? — Ray Bradbury

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession. — Eric Schlosser

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry. — Nikos Kazantzakis

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation. — Nikolai Gogol

If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint. — Ronald Knox

Just because all the rats are gone doesn't mean I trust the rattlesnake that got rid of them. — John Steiner

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame. — Sherman Alexie

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is. — Murray Walker