The rain in the Ukraine falls mainly not on the plains.

Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to…

— Thomas Boswell

I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn't fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it's almost…

— Louise Wilson

“Alice is fictional. This isn't.”

— Jess C. Scott

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees…

— Rory Bremner

There are parodies of non-existent things.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to…

— Thomas Szasz

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

— Tony Blair

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

— David Foster Wallace

Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big.

— Chamillionaire

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its…

— Nancy Pearcey

“Oh, I don’t mean to infer that you’re not a great guy. I’m sure you’re the exception to the rule.”

— Jaye Frances

I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from…

— Noam Chomsky

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

— Al Yankovic

The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by…

— Slavoj Žižek

“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise its crumbs…

— Stewart Stafford