I've tried to stay away from mild satire. I want an audience to feel something more powerful for their ten bucks. If… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I was watching the devastations of the Kashmir floods, and a reporter was asking a local, who had just lost her house… — Bhuvan Bam Copy Share Image
“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor… — David Zucker Copy Share Image
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and… — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
“She looked at her note cards and took a breath. "Why I Love America, by Hayley McDonald's. America is the greatest group… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“St John had been sitting in the back garden twizzling a pencil, on the end of which a russet deposit was impaled,… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
“The chairs - turned towards one another in groups of twos and threes - seemed like the seats of ghosts in close… — Baroness Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“As much as I think about sex, I can only with extreme difficulty conceive of myself actually performing the act. And here's… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
“It's the little things that make you want to kill someone, the way Milo drinks Diet Dr Pepper and ties his Jewfro… — Caroline Kepnes Copy Share Image
“My new story collection won’t please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
“I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can… — Mike Corbett Copy Share Image
I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“If Heraclitus was a Macedonian, his philosophy would be : No Macedonian ever steps in the same native country twice. For it’s… — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“…he’d assumed their relationship would go on forever. It was going on now, but in another way, like the rearrangement of the… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“I do not understand you.” “Then we are on very unequal terms, for I understand you perfectly well.” “Me? Yes; I cannot… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great.… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I don't know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It's… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
“Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke… — Robert Brockway Copy Share Image
“As they entered, Lemuel Sixpack was in the middle of his trademark long- winded oration. His last name was really Sixpack and,… — Krzysztof Pacyński Copy Share Image
Obviously, I'm a fan of satire. I'd debate anyone, but it would have to be the actual person. That would be my… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“You will be very visible in the company photo, also the website and any other marketing materials. There's no way to avoid… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
“The woman spoke with a heavy western North Carolina accent, which I used to discredit her authority. Here was a person for… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Oh yeah, well I suddenly realises that she’d only been with my boyfriend at the Co-op Christmas do when I were eighteen.… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In TV writing, Armando Iannucci's satire 'The Thick of It' is brilliant - equal parts hysterically funny, terrifyingly believable, and Oh-my-God-I-can't-believe-he-actually-said-that -… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and… — Mark Morford Copy Share Image
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense… — Jonathan Kieran Copy Share Image
