It's an interesting education to listen to cricket commentary when you're not at the game. When you're there, which is most of… — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
“The late-afternoon light was thick and orange and she passed four different couples taking photos of themselves on the same cobblestoned block,… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
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… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
“For those who think religious people live in a constant state of fear and quaking, compare Ps 111:10 to Ps 112:7. There,… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
I once read in a Bible commentary that the word "Christian" means "little Christs." What an honor to share Christ's name! We… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
[John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a… — Tabitha Soren Copy Share Image
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
“They do think the world is some kind of science-fiction novel, then. Do you realize how fervently most people will believe in… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past -… — Ted Kulongoski Copy Share Image
I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Photographers sometimes take pictures of each other; occasionally they take pictures of each other at work; more usually they take photographs -… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took… — Jerry Lawler Copy Share Image
As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just… — Nicola Monaghan Copy Share Image
You don't need the 'voice of God' commentary. Instead, by juxtaposing contradictory or confirmatory witnesses and archive material, your point of view… — Marcel Ophuls Copy Share Image
Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers,… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of,… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Mike Myatt’s ‘Hacking Leadership’ is a must read… Mike combines insightful yet practical commentary with in the trenches leadership experience few can… — Vijay Govindarajan Copy Share Image
The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
The jokes were perfect! Then George Carlin started talking about the seven dirty words you can't say on television, then it evolved… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
I think 'The Thing' is so good because it's not just a scary movie. It's also social commentary, which works on multiple… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image