Commentariat Quotes & Sayings

Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through some autocratic press law or a new Press Complaints Commission redecorated with false teeth. But there is another way. Let journalists regulate themselves ... Let's have a little democracy in the media. Even in the Murdoch papers, the number of journalists who are irretrievably lawless and callous is quite small. Most of the disasters at the News of the World happened because its editors treated their staff in the style of Muammar Gaddafi. — Neal Ascherson

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life. — Christopher Walken

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome. — Rebekah Brooks

A woman needs to know about blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. And she needs to know the kinds of things she can do to stay healthy. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The cable commentariat is a cog in the corpulent D.C. fleshpot. — Ilana Mercer

Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western. — Paul Van Dyk

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was. — Anne Carson

Maybe there's a perception of me as grumpy old bugger who suffers from depression. It's a total misconception. I don't think of myself as any grumpier than the next person. I'm not even grumpy first thing in the morning. — Paul Merton

I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person. — Cat Power

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation. — Linda McCartney

While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish — Lenny Bruce

Let people know what you stand for and what you won't stand for. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be ... the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller) — Tammara Webber

The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound. — Jennifer Lopez