Top 368 Commentary Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.
I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.
History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
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.
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
"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.
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!
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.
You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.
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 had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
You don't need the 'voice of God' commentary. Instead, by juxtaposing contradictory or confirmatory witnesses and archive material, your point of view becomes obvious.
Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their lives.
It's a sad commentary when children feel they can talK to a stranger better than their own parents and ask him to solve their personal problems.
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.
People will know if you are telling the truth or lying. If you are doing commentary, why not tell the truth?
I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.
I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.
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 think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.
I've been doing breathing routines for years. It is massive. It helped me in commentary as well.
It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."
There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not.
'Line Of Duty' is first and foremost a thriller. But I hope it will also be seen as a revisionist commentary on 21st century policing.
Apocalyptic hysteria is much more effective at getting people to open their wallets than reasonable commentary.
I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.
It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.
One of the most overused phrases in political commentary is that someone is running a 'negative' campaign filled with 'attack' ads.
Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.
I was hired by the 'Tom Joyner Morning Show' to do commentary that makes people think. I want my audience to feel like they are learning and not being pandered to.
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.
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.
I've never been ashamed of being the ham or the provocateur, as it were, in my style of commentary or my style of showmanship.
What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.
A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.
Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.
I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.
I love doing commentary, and I love working with NWA, as that's been a goal of mine for a long time.
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.
I think politics is a dirty game. We've seen the sides that they take; we've seen the commentary they have had on my father.
Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.
Boxing's in my blood, so I'll always stay involved in that, and I'll probably do a bit of TV work as well, commentary and that.
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.
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.
I'm the farthest thing from a hater if any of the former guys do the post UFC commentary shows. I would never knock anybody for doing them.
After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.
Social media are fundamental to communicate and understand what happens in the world. It's a point of view and an immediate commentary.
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.
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.
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.
A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.
Taboo' certainly isn't a commentary on other types of period drama. It's just a different way of tackling one.
I am the illegal alien of commentary. I will do the jokes that no one else will do.
I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.
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.
