Comment Quotes - Page 6

• I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Jobs, Eight, Years

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• I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

  James Goodnight

  Book, Reading, People

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• I tend to take negative comments to heart.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Heart, Negative, Negative Comments

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

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• My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

  Ward Churchill

  Journalist, Reserved

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• Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

  Stafford Cripps

  Real, Party, Differences

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• I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

  Patrick Carney

  Awkward, Looks, Ugly

  "The Rise of the Black Keys" by Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. January 19, 2012.

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• It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

  Jenny Lawson

  Humble, Interesting, Hysterical

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• I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.

  Vijay Mallya

  People, Want, Way

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• We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.

  Madison Grant

  Book, Believe, Publishing House

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• At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Ideas, Breakfast, Tables

  "Five minutes with Mark Z Danielewski". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2000.

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• Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Receiving, Pouring, Discouragement

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.34, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Notebook, Artist, Essence

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• Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

  C. P. Scott

  Giving, Suffering, Doe

  'Manchester Guardian' 5 May 1921

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• I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions about my personal life, I want to apologize to my family, friends, colleagues and students. Beyond that circle, however, I shall have no further comment.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  Regret, Circles, Vietnam

  "Historian fakes his own history" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2001.

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• I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!

  Tommy Franks

  Past, Thinking, President

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• He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him

  Jose Mourinho

  Player, Men, Champion

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• I really don't care about the response to my hair this is just how my hair is. I don't take care of it, or comb it, or put anything in it, or style it or anything. When people comment on it, it is funny to me that it draws such attention. It makes me realize how insignificant that sort of thing is.

  Steve Nash

  Hair, People, Style

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• We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

  Pierre Pettigrew

  Ambition, Iran, Hatred

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• Speaking for the one field which I feel definitely qualified to comment on, I fully believe the animated picture will emerge as one of the greatest mediums, not only of entertainment but also of education.

  Walt Disney

  Believe, Fields, Entertainment

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• That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to comment, rate, etc., without having to set up a new profile for that site.

  Erik Qualman

  Wall, Tools, Etc

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• I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.

  Ron Pope

  Thinking, Mcdonalds, People

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• Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.

  Steven Amsterdam

  Nursing, Sight, Smell

  "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.

  C. L. Wilson

  Dark, Age, Medical

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• I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.

  Todd Barry

  Mean, Errors, Logic

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• I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments.

  James Elkins

  Artist, Achievement, Ambitious

  James Elkins (2005). “Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings”, p.6, Routledge

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