Commentary Quotes

Commentary Quote of the day

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

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

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.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

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

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

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

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.

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

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

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

Social media are fundamental to communicate and understand what happens in the world. It's a point of view and an immediate commentary.

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

You are what you read.

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

Success equals goals; all else is commentary

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

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

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

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

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

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

No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

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

Music is always a commentary on society.

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

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

I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone to tell them their troubles.

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening.

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

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

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

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

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

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny [Bruce], certainly not in terms of social commentary.