“Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.” — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a virtue of the wicked. Irreverence is the champion of liberty, it's only sure defence. The Golden eye of justice… — John Braun Copy Share Image
A little bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for… — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“I laugh at everything, even at that which I love the most. There is no fact, thing, feeling or person over which… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Yeah, yeah, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye type of thing. There's that kind of irreverence to it… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society, except that which makes the road safer, the beer stronger, the old… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image