#comment

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #science-fiction #social-commentary #thumb #towel

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. ↗

— Frank Norris

#function #life #novelist #sees #upon

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#because #comment #detail #hegel #i

Mao recalled: "Very many members of our family have given their lives, killed by the Kuomintang and the American imperialists. You grew up eating honey, and thus far you have never known suffering. In the future, if you do not become a rightist, but rather a centrist, I shall be satisfied. You have never suffered--how can you be a leftist?" ↗

— Mao Tse-tung

#family

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal. ↗

— Bob Costas

#any #broadcast #called #commentary #good

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare. ↗

— Charles Dance

#commentaries #dogs #five #goats #had

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though! ↗

— Dennis Franz

#culture #felt #i #impact #love

We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#border #both #both sides #circumstances #comments

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#anyone #bad #because #cannot #claims

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#believing #comment #constrained #duties #exposed