#comment

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again. ↗

— David Byrne

#social-commentary #music

It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#witty-comments #witty

Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#witty-comments #witty

I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#comment #else #i #judgmental #person

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#believe #bias #comments #decisions #dr

For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous. ↗

— Carlos Alazraqui

#being #character #comfortable #commented #episode

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#commenting #existence #i #into #like

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. ↗

— Imran Khan

#commentary #cricket #does #doing #endorsements

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#anything #bluntly #commentary #going #i