Commentary Quotes
141 quotes by 132 authors
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God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
— Rob Bell
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Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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What does she (J. K. Rowling) hope people will take with them about this time? “When all the fuss and hoopla dies away, and when…
— Melissa Anelli
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This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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…
— Rick Riordan
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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…
— Fernando Pessoa
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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…
— Robert Kirkman
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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,…
— William Butler Yeats
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
— Alan Bennett
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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!
— Kathy Reichs
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To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.
— Michael Grant
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Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn —…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Science is...a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective...in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for…
— Francis Collins
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The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy…
— Alan Ball
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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…
— Geoff Mulgan
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The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
— Richie Benaud
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I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
— Elie Wiesel
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