Quotes of: Satire Keyword

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Michael Flanders

I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

Garry Trudeau

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

John Cusack

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

Jimmy Carl Black

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

Anthony Bourdain

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Ben Lindsey

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

John B. S. Haldane

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

Louise J. Kaplan

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Louise J. Kaplan

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

Al Franken

Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

An Accomplished Woman

My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.

The Book of Wu

How can you get through to yourself?

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

The Sixteen Satires

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Albert Ellis

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.

Robert Gottlieb

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.

Shawn Wayans

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

Tim Heidecker

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.

John Welwood

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Dawn Powell