“There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'm just gonna kill you," says Mike, peeved at being predictable. "You ever think of that?" "No, Mike. Because if you… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Back in our apartment, lights out, The Professor emerged from beneath the bed." - from "The Professor Spends the Night," in issue… — Joseph Patrick Pascale Copy Share Image
“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“[An] explanation that was simply in the best traditions of female logic: "I don't know why, but I want it, so you… — Michael Atamanov Copy Share Image
“The Crusaders lead to the Knights Templar; the Knights Templar lead to the Masons; and the Masons lead to the Shriners, a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Since my trips to Earth, I've only managed to assemble a few basics facts about humans, condensing them in to four, overall… — Tai Odunsi Copy Share Image
“Maud: Young women are never happy. Betty: Mother, what a thing to say. Maud: Then when they're older they look back and… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“She said when a boy and a girl dog copulate, the head of the boy's penis swells and the vaginal muscles of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Women, when they kill themselves, choose far more romantic methods - like slashing their wrists or taking an overdose of sleeping pills.Abandoned… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for… — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
“The sexual contact before this? “It was the first time.” The woman looked at Rat again, harder. The silence was more painful… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
“I turned on Fox News and jumped when I saw that they had one of those things in their studio. "Are you… — Ian McClellan Copy Share Image
“Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they… — Edgar Johnson Copy Share Image
Pops added,you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve. And if you do, you never get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes,… — Stan Laurel Copy Share Image
When George Bush finally leaves the White House, the satire industry will briefly join the rest of the economy in recession. It… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm uncomfortable with the word satire. In the U.K., there's quite a bit of sledgehammer weight to that word, which is the… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Kara knew all he recognized was T and A on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy puppeeter ,… — Saira Viola Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated… — Kerry E. Wagner Copy Share Image
“St John had always been a fan of the RS Turbo, mainly due to the colour coded rear spoiler and air vents… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting… — Tom Tomorrow Copy Share Image
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way… — Nathan Poe Copy Share Image
“Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image