Commentary Quotes

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

  Michael Owen

  Games

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• 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.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, sites.fas.harvard.edu. December 4, 2000.

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• Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.

  Werner Herzog

  Voice, Courses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  John Shirley

  Writing, Thinking, Social

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• You witness the artists acting as witnesses, but they provide a point of view that's less monolithic. It's less official in a certain way. Many artists are speaking in the first person singular, as a reaction to dubbed-over media commentary. The thought is: "Enough with how we're represented by the media. Let me tell the story."

  Massimiliano Gioni

  Artist, Views, Media

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sometimes

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Deadeye Dick”, Delacorte Press

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• To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.

  Robert Kirkman

  Character, Zombie, World

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• Music is always a commentary on society.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Music Is

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• One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand. I saw a commentary on the Bible by a certain Rabbi Moshe Dessauer, better known as Moses Mendelssohn. An elderly man came up to me - I was then maybe 10 or 12. "What are you studying?" he said. "Dessauer's commentaries," I said. So he gave me a slap on my face.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Men, Elderly

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• 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.

  George Carlin

  Believe, League, Social

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now.

  Elie Wiesel

  Song, Passion, Yams

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.

  Werner Herzog

  Pbs, Vapid, Roaches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Book, Character

  Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). “The book of disquiet: a selection”, Quartet Encounters

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• I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Artist, Significant Things

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

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• 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.

  Jay Mohr

  Dirty, Talking, Perfect

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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

  Charles Schumer

  War, Iraq, Infrastructure

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• Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

  Shel Silverstein

  Humor, Comic, Visuals

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• 'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.

  George R. R. Martin

  Philosophy, Writing, Details

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Damian Marley

  Song, Writing, Singing

  "30 minutes with ... Damian Marley". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2012.

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

  Jacques Lacan

  Drama, Would Be, Facts

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• Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Storm, Cry, Women Leadership

  "Boys Can Cry" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

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• The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Firsts, Provoking

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.4, Рипол Классик

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• I once read in a Bible commentary that the word "Christian" means "little Christs." What an honor to share Christ's name! We can be bold to call ourselves Christians and bear the stamp of his character and reputation. When people find out the you are a Christian, they should already have an idea of who you are and what you are like simply because you bear such a precious name.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Character, Mean

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Criticism, Scarcity, Swarms

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1093, 谷月社

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• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Mean

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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