Commentary Quotes

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work the commentary on that cry. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever. View quote
David Fincher
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. View quote
Susan Sontag
I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysentery. View quote
Woody Allen
All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last Prophecy written in the third year of Cyrus over Babylon, the year in which he conquered Persia. For this Prophecy is a commentary upon the Vision of the Ram and He-Goat. View quote
Isaac Newton
Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships. View quote
Rick Riordan
Content, of course, must have some form. And form, of course, creates its content/commentary. This is why their chimeras have chased each other through moment after moment of history, the intense perception of one or the other producing the overwhelming effect: Art. (Samuel R. Delany)
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! View quote
Kathy Reichs
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that. View quote
Imran Khan
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure. View quote
Chuck Schumer
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. View quote
Gavyn Davies
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. View quote
Jay Roach
I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that. View quote
Lance Ito
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race. View quote
Oscar Robertson
Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic. View quote
Tabitha Soren
My notion of a fruitful economic science would be that it can help us explain and understand the course of actual economic history. A scholar who seriously addresses commentary on contemporary monthly and yearly events is, in this view, practicing the study of history-history in its most contemporary time phasing. View quote
Paul Samuelson
Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; "for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost" is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith. (Antonin Scalia)
Music is always a commentary on society. View quote
Frank Zappa
Poor Joshua! Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, cowardly, and intemperate father, and abandoned by respondents who placed him in a dangerous predicament and who knew or learned what was going on, and yet did essentially nothing except, as the Court revealingly observes, ante, at 193, "dutifully recorded these incidents in [their] files." It is a sad commentary upon American life, and constitutional principles - so full of late of patriotic fervor and proud proclamations about "liberty and justice for all" - that this child, Joshua DeShaney, now is assigned to live out the remainder of his life profoundly retarded. Joshua and his mother, as petitioners here, deserve - but now are denied by this Court - the opportunity to have the facts of their case considered in the light of the constitutional protection that 42 U.S.C. 1983 is meant to provide." View quote
Harry Blackmun
When I used my real name, all of a sudden there was a lot of commentary. 'Oh, you're a woman' or 'You can't really be a woman' or 'You don't write like a woman.' Or all of a sudden my arguments were not taken as seriously or were judged as hysterical or emotional.... So I got much more interested in why this was happening. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
Well, not so much politics. A couple of my songs have a social commentary, like Oye Mi Canto (Hear My Voice). I really can't escape from politics because my father was a political prisoner in Cuba; he went to Vietnam. But I try to stay away from politics as much as possible. View quote
Gloria Estefan