Commentary Quotes

Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel.

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

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

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

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

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.

All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary.

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.

A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

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

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

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

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

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

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

I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit.

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

There were a lot of times where I didn't get any shows and even until recently got a lot of kind of negative commentary from social media about my runway walk.

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

The jokes were perfect! Then George Carlin started talking about the seven dirty words you can't say on television, then it evolved into social commentary.

I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

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

It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

Todd, this is almost like your commentary! Dizzying!

I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.

Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions.” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary.” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To the pimp ride!

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.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

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

A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'

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.

"The Moderately Talented..." is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.

It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.